Visitors to the Museum

Sunday, September 22, 2019: Karen and Scott Fowler arranged with Sunshine Solaas, the Hanna Basin Museum coordinator, for a special date and time to open the Hanna Basin Museum. They wanted to research family member E. O. Christiansen who was working and living in Hanna when the March 29, 1908 explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 mine in Hanna occurred. The Fowler's visited the museum and visited the south entrance to the No. 1 mine.

(Sunshine Solaas)

Visitors to the Hanna Basin Museum

Friday, September 13, 2019: Visitors from Chorley England visited the museum seeking information on the Clarkson family members that died in June 30, 1903 explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 in Hanna.

The museum staff members were able to provided the visitors with information about their family and took them to the Carbon cemetery to visit the gave site. The visitors were able to placed hand made family decorations they carried with them from England and place them on the grave. 

Visitors to the Museum

September 5, 2019: Sunshine Solaas, museum coordinator, hosted Mrs. Ward's 9th grade class at the museum. The class was interested in how the museum could help them with a class project. They looked at the history of the Hanna Schools on the HannaBasinMuseum.com website, visited the Cummings / Crawford cottage and learned how to access the old Hanna newspaper, the Hanna Herald.