Centennial Community Day 2014
Community Day is coming back to the Nici Self Historical Museum on Saturday, August 16th. From 9 AM to 1 PM locals can BYOT (Bring Your Own Table) and pay […]
Community Day is coming back to the Nici Self Historical Museum on Saturday, August 16th. From 9 AM to 1 PM locals can BYOT (Bring Your Own Table) and pay […]
The huge piles of snow are starting to disappear from the grounds of the museum. We’ve noticed deer grazing on the newly uncovered green fuzz by the caboose. We’re having […]
Thanks to the generosity of Steve Costin and Cindy Vadnais, and the hard work of HyAltitude Contracting, the museum has a new addition – a skid shack, typical of those […]
The museum is now open for the summer season. We had a great opening weekend, with more than 70 visitors from as far away as Poland stopping by during the […]
On Thursday, May 23, students and teachers from Whiting High School came to the museum for their second annual cleanup day. They cleaned all the buildings, inside and out, and cleaned […]
The workshop participants visited the Laramie Fire Department’s drill grounds, where the firefighters did a demonstration burn. Donated “artifacts” were placed on metal shelving inside the burn building, then the […]
A few of us from the musuem were able to attend a Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning Workshop today at the Laramie Plains Museum in Laramie, presented by the Wyoming […]
Gold fever was still infecting the country when gold was discovered above Centennial in 1875. Eventually several minerals were mined in the area, including platinum and copper. There are still […]
Most people don’t move to the Centennial Valley for the balmy weather. Living here is a challenge in the winter even today, so early settlers had to improvise. Children rode […]
This saddle was made by a prisoner in the Wyoming Territorial Prison, now preserved as a State Historic Site. The cowboys who would have used this saddle settled on ranches […]