Cummings / Crawford Cottage
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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. It 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)
