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Museums in Carbon County
     
  Carbon County Museum

Carbon County Museum has exhibits highlighting the rich
heritage of cattle and sheep ranching as well as mining
throughout the county. Find Native American artifacts and
cultural information.
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Fort Steele Museum

Fort Steele was laid out on June 30, 1868 by Major Richard I.
Dodge at the place where the Union Pacific--the westward-
building portion of the nation's first transcontinental railroad
met the North Platte River.
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The Grand Encampment Museum

The Grand Encampment Museum, located in Encampment,
Wyoming, preserves history with its collection of over a dozen
historical buildings filled with artifacts representing the timber,
mining, and agricultural history of the Encampment valley.
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Hanna Basin Museum

Coal Mining and the Company Town. Carbon, first coal camp
on the original Union Pacific Railroad, as seen through the lens
of its burial ground. Hanna, successor to Carbon and
Company Town.
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Little Snake River Museum

Located in south-central Wyoming near the Colorado border
in Savery.  It was the Savery School for many years until 1972
when the Little Snake River Valley Schools were consolidated
and all valley students were sent to Baggs.
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Medicine Bow Museum

The Medicine Bow Museum is located in the old railroad
depot, across the highway from the Virginian Hotel. The
depot was built in November 1913, after a fire destroyed the
original depot earlier that same year.
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Read the legend of Big Nosed George
   
Mormon Handcart Historic Site

During their trek from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah,
in 1856, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints in the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies suffered
one of the greatest tragedies of easrly pioneer travelers...
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Parco/Sinclair Museum

The room in which the Museum is presently located was
originally the First National Bank of Parco, Wyoming.  The
bank opened at 10:00 am on July 5, 1924 and closed on
June 1, 1933 after transferring all business...
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Saratoga Museum

The Saratoga Museum is housed in the town's original
c. 1915 Union Pacific Railroad Depot. The museum
opened in 1980 and provides an opportunity to explore
the Platte Valley.
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Wyoming’s Frontier Prison

The Old Wyoming State Penitentiary in use from 1901 - 1981 is
now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and
offers hour-long guided tours that take visitors through three
cell blocks, the cafeteria, the grounds and the Death House.
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