1939: Cummings / Crawford Cottage

Exhibit from Bob Leathers

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The Cummings / Crawford Cottage is on display at the Hanna Basin Museum. The cottage is an original Union Pacific Coal Company house lived in over time by the Cummings and Crawford families.

The Cummings' family was living in the cottage in 1939. It was house No. 29 across from Job While, Sarah Cummings Uncle.

The house was relocated from its original location to the Hanna Basin Museum on June 12, 2013 by the Summit Trucking and House Moving Company in Laramie, Wyoming.

​Over time the house has been restored to near its original color and condition. 

Cummings / Crawford Cottage on display at the Hanna basin museum

kitchen

living room

living room

Porch

Robert and Sarah (While) Cummings Lived in the Coal Miner's Cottage

Sarah (While) Cummings cooking traditional Christmas breakfast of eggs, sausage, fried oysters, hot rolls and coffee. (Cummings Collection)

The kitchen stove served multiple functions. It was used to cook, heat the hot water (water tank is located at the top right in the picture) and heat the kitchen area. It took experience, care and concentration to cook on a wood and coal fired stove. (Cummings Collection)

Sarah (While) Cummings serving breakfast to her husband Bob, her grandchildren, Laura Eskeli and Paul Cummings in the dining room. In the background is the living room coal heating stove and door to a small bedroom. (Cummings Collection)

The boys are playing over where the cesspool was located. At the top right of the picture are the outhouses. One side was for Cummings use and the other side was for the neighbor, Jim Hearne. Each outhouses had two seats. (Cummings Collection)

2013 June 12: Moving the Cottage to the Hanna Basin Museum

(Hanna Basin Museum)

(Hanna Basin Museum)

(Hanna Basin Museum)

(Hanna Basin Museum)