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 […]
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Springtime in Centennial
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 […]
A new addition
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 […]
We’re Open!
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 […]
Thanks to Whiting High School
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 […]
Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning, Day 2
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 […]
Disaster Preparedness and Response Workshop
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 […]
Our Railroad Heritage
This is a key and padlock from the Laramie North Park Railroad, one of the railroad companies in Centennial’s past. In the early 1900s, Isaac vanHorn from Boston partnered with […]
Squirrel Creek Fire Exhibit
In the summer of 2012, our area was threatened by the 11,000 acre Squirrel Creek fire. To honor the efforts of the local volunteers as well as California Incident Management […]
