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The Doc
Culleton Memorial Building is our main
structure that houses many of our artifacts and
our gift shop. Check in at this location first
for details about all of our buildings/structures
and tours.
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This
is the world famous two story outhouse.
This is a replica of the original located in Wyoming.
When it started to snow, they would lift up the
bottom seats as seen on the lower right. Once
spring came and all the snow melted they cleaned
out the whole thing and locked the top, for prankster
sake, and went back to using the bottom.
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The log building was
originally a cabin in Riverside. The blacksmith
shop was an important feature of every
early mining town. There were always horses to
shoe & wagon wheels to shrink.
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The Palace Bakery
and Ice Cream Parlor was originally owned
and operated by Mr. & Mrs. Koffman about 1800,
on McCaffrey Ave. Upstairs was the Royal Neighbors
of America Lodge in 1945. The lodge was sold for
$50.00 to Robert Bechtel, who used it for a painting
& sign lettering shop. Colonel Paul Bechtel
eventually donated the building to the museum.
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The Kuntzman Building
was built in 1900 by George Kuntzman. This was
his insurance office at the time. This was a very
nice office to have because of it’s nice
display windows. After this building was donated
to the museum, we turned it into our saloon, really
because it was the only building that we could
get the tall back bar into.
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The Battle Miner
is the only building left from the ghost town
of Battle Lake. It was built on the Crest of the
Continental Divide 12 miles West of Encampment.
This was the home of George Eberhart in Battle
Lake. In 1902 he moved this building to Encampment
where he and his wife Josephine lived while their
new home was being built.
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This is the Vo
Ag Building that was built in 1935 by
the Vocational Agriculture students from Encampment
School, under the direction of instructor Wilbur
Wood. The new school was built in ’91 and
had no longer use for this building so they donated
it to the museum.
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This is the Livery
Stable. We use this building to house
all of our older means of transportation along
with farming and ranching tools.
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This is the Lake
Creek Stage Station. William Brause built
it on Lake Creek three miles North of Saratoga
in the late 1870’s. Nettie & Charles
Scribner bought the ranch in 1902. At one time
there were 158 horses pasteured here.
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This
is the Weber Springs Guard Station.
It was built in 1940 and used by the Forest Service.
There were 8 of these cabins on this side of the
Sierra Madre Mountains. Usually 2 men would come
stay at these cabins for about 2 weeks at a time,
they did things like measure growth of trees and
watch for fires.
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This is the Tie Hack
Cabin. These cabins were located in what
were called tie hack camps. There were usually 2-3
of these cabins in each camp along with a two story
outhouse and a cookhouse. They would sleep 6-8 men
in one cabin.
They cut logs all winter long which is how they
earned their nickname as “Tie Hackers”.
Once spring came and the snow melted, they hauled
the logs to the river and rode them to Ft. Steele
which is where they were then shipped to the train
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This
is the Peryam House, it was built
in 1886 by Guy Nichols and his nephew Ezra. After
the Nichols moved out, the Peryams moved in. It
was moved to Riverside, just a few miles away.
This building was so big that we had to cut it
in half to move it to its new location at the
museum.
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This is the
Wolfard Schoolhouse. It was built in
1895 by William Henry Wolford. It was located
out on their ranch. They had ten kids, nine boys
and one girl, and the one girl was the youngest!
It was moved to the museum in June 1986.
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The Aerial Tramway
ran 16 miles between the smelter in Encampment,
WY and the Ferris Haggerty Mine up in the mountains.
There were 375 wooden towers and 800 ore buckets.
Each ore bucket could hold up to 700 lbs of copper
ore. Every day the Ferris Haggerty produced fifty
tons of copper ore. The smelter was built in 1902
and burnt down in 1907 for the third and final time.
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The Parkison House
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The Saratoga Cabin
was built prior to 1890 by John Cluff. Mildred
Needham lived in this cabin as a bride. Charley
Fait & Lizzie Nichols were married in 1897
& this was their first home.
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