Welcome to the Hanna Basin Museum Website

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​Last Updated: January, 17, 2022
​Created: January 1, 2010
- Over ​12 Years of Sharing -
The purpose of this website is to help others connect to the past by collecting, preserving, and sharing historical information about Wyoming's Hanna Basin. We invite you to explore how the Hanna Basin came to be and how it touched the lives of many. 
Website Provided by Bob Leathers​ ​in cooperation with the Hanna Basin Historical Society
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Website contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)​​​
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January 2022

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  • Remembering: Randall, G. C. - Old Carbon Union Pacific Railroad Station Manager
Image from the Past - F. M. Baker - Old Carbon and Hanna Photographer
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Carbon City by F. M. Baker. (Newspaper - Wyoming and Its Future, January 1, 1887)
1. Beckwith Commercial Company Store  2. Carbon House  3. C. F. Johnson's Store  4. Scranton House  5. G. Gobleman  6. Butcher Shop.  7 & 8 Co-operative Store  10. Dr. Clark. 11. Dr. Ricketts and Barber Shop  12. F. P Shannon's Drug Store 13. General store owned by F. P. Shannon  14. Wyoming House  15. Finish Church.  16. Saloon  17. No. 6 Coal Mine. 18. No. 2 Coal Mine (Building No. 9 missing.) (Wyoming and Its Future, Laramie Territory, 1887 Holiday Edition)
BAKER’S STUDIO
One of the busiest places in town [Carbon] is Baker’s Photograph Gallery, situated on an eminence in the northern part of this place. The proprietor, F. M. Baker, ranks among the leading photographers of the territory. Within the past year he has erected a commodious gallery, fitted up with all the modern improvements, and admirably adapted for his business. Mr. Baker has in the past always turned-out fine work but his present pictures surpass anything ever seen in this county, and it is doubtful if they can be beaten by any artist in Wyoming. Mr. Baker is a young man of thirty and a graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont. He has been a resident of Wyoming for the past five years and considers himself a permanent fixture. In addition to making photographs and views, he carries a large stock of frames and albums, which he offers at very reasonable prices. He makes a specialty of enlarging pictures and also takes orders for crayon portraits. The picture of Carbon at the head of this article, is from a photograph taken recently by Mr. Baker especially for this edition. He is widely known throughout the territory, and his many friends watch his artistic progress with great pleasure. (Wyoming and Its Future, Laramie Territory, 1887 Holiday Edition)
More at: F. M. Baker - Old Carbon and Hanna Photographer
HANNA BASIN MUSEUM AND CUMMINGS/CRAWFORD COTTAGE 
​Mike Armstrong, Public Relations Director
April Avery, Museum Staff

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Cummings - Crawford Cottage and Hanna Basin Museum (Image by Bob Leathers - Hanna Basin Museum Website)
Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
​(307) 325-6465
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Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM    Winter Hours: Saturday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.​

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The Hanna Miner - A Slideshow

Video from Bob Leathers for the Hanna Basin Museum Website
Music by The O'Neill Brothers Group - Instrumental Country Guitar: Coal Miner's Daughter

Mail From Our Visitors

Bob,
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I was compelled to write and thank you and the Hanna Basin Historical Society for the amazing work you have done on your website.  I visit your site from time to time and I love to read the fascinating history of the Hanna Basin Area and its coal mining roots.  I have a soft spot for coal miners and mining as I spent 17 years working for Black Butte Coal Company in Point of Rocks, Wyoming, from 2001 until I joined the State Mine Inspector's Office in 2018.  I would love to stop by the museum sometime   Again, thank you so much for all you do in preserving the history of that area and its mining heritage.  If there is ever anything this office can assist you with, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Kind regards,  
Heather Kroupa, CMSP
State Inspector of Mines
WY State Mine Inspector's Office
Hi, 

Just wanted to send a quick message thanking you for creating this website.  I can tell alot of thought and work has gone into it. 

My father and his family grew up in Hanna before moving away. He took me back there to visit a few times and really enjoyed it.  I stopped by the museum a few years ago and loved it.  Keep up the good work. 

Thank you,

Craig Wales
Good morning,

My name is Delia Hagen and I'm a Montana-based historian who is working on a project for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation office on Wyoming's African American history and historic places. I know Hanna had a Black community for decades, and Brigida Blasi referred me to Bob Leathers at the Hanna Basin Museum as a knowledgeable source on the subject. 
I'm trying to plan my research and fieldwork for the project, and hope to make a research trip in October. Does the Hanna Basin Museum maintain any collections that might shed light on the history of African Americans in the area (or elsewhere in Wyoming)? Also wondering if you might know of other possibly-relevant repositories, or of any sites in the area related to Black history? Brigida mentioned that there was a Black church in Hanna and that the building might still exist (albeit moved to a different location), which I'd especially love to learn more about.

Thank you for your help.

Best,
Delia Hagen, PhD
Historical Consulting
Gathering
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Gathering. (While Family Collection from Bob Leathers)

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