Hanna, Carbon County, Wyoming
Welcome to the Hanna Basin Museum Website
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.
came to be and how it touched the lives of many.
This website is provided by Bob Leathers in cooperation with the Hanna Basin Historical Society.
Created: August 1, 2010
Last Updated: April 7, 2020
Website contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Last Updated: April 7, 2020
Website contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Hanna Basin Museum and Cummings/Crawford Cottage (Image by Bob Leathers, 2015)
Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
Images from the Past
Mining Town Girl
by
M.E.H - Hanna
She’s a mining town girl,
With mining town ways,
She lives in a mining town,
A mining town dance is her one delight,
And she wears a mining town gown.
No “formal” affairs for this mining town girl,
Although she is dainty and pretty;
With fairy-like steps, she glides o’er the floor,
The envy of girls from the city.
Her brother’s a miner
And so is her dad;
They call it a fine occupation,
The city home’s heat is “modern” of course,
Yet they’re digging coal for the nation.
There’s no millionaires in a small mining town,
No high society’s swirl,
And to those who will act,
For some of them do,
Just be a mining town girl.
---M.E.H., Hanna (UPCCEM, January 1936)
by
M.E.H - Hanna
She’s a mining town girl,
With mining town ways,
She lives in a mining town,
A mining town dance is her one delight,
And she wears a mining town gown.
No “formal” affairs for this mining town girl,
Although she is dainty and pretty;
With fairy-like steps, she glides o’er the floor,
The envy of girls from the city.
Her brother’s a miner
And so is her dad;
They call it a fine occupation,
The city home’s heat is “modern” of course,
Yet they’re digging coal for the nation.
There’s no millionaires in a small mining town,
No high society’s swirl,
And to those who will act,
For some of them do,
Just be a mining town girl.
---M.E.H., Hanna (UPCCEM, January 1936)
To read more Hanna poetry: Notes: Poetry from Carbon and Hanna
Video: The Hanna Miner
from Bob Leathers
Music by The O'Neill Brothers Group - Instrumental Country Guitar: Coal Miner's Daughter
Music by The O'Neill Brothers Group - Instrumental Country Guitar: Coal Miner's Daughter
New in the Notebook:
Superstitions in the Coal Mines: Tommyknockers, Knockers, Demons, Gnomes and Fairies
More images, video and notes at: Superstitions in the Coal Mines: Tommyknockers, Knockers, Demons, Gnomes and Fairies
New or Updated Content on the Website
April 2020
New on April 7, 2020:
Updated on April 7, 2020:
New images and notes
New images and notes
Updated on April 7, 2020:
New more notes and two more videos
New more notes and two more videos
New miners added on April 7, 2020:
Added more miners
Added more miners
- Coal Mines: Men Injured in the Hanna Mines
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