Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission

Former Eagles No. 186 building to become new office for MC2 Collaborative Historic downtown Sheridan has been known for its buildings that are rich in history, including the former Fraternal Order of the Eagles No. 186 building, located at 850 N. Main

Historic preservation is inherently a sustainable practice.

A commonly quoted phrase, “the greenest building is the one that’s already built,” succinctly expresses the relationship between preservation and sustainability. The repair and retrofitting of existing and historic buildings is considered by many to be the ultimate recycling project, and focusing on historic buildings has added benefits for the larger community. Traditional materials are generally durable, the continued maintenance of historic buildings and features relies on local craftsmen rather than replacement parts, and these structures generally make up the heart of our towns and cities. For decades, preservation programs like the Historic Preservation Fund and the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives have demonstrated that whole communities can be revitalized by rehabilitating individual buildings.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy Information Administration, buildings are the largest consumers of energy in the nation. In recognition of the role the built environment plays in energy use, Technical Preservation Services develops guidance and technical information about how historic properties can incorporate sustainable practices to reduce energy consumption, while maintaining those characteristics that make historic properties significant: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1739/sustainability-energy-efficiency-resilience-historic-buildings.htm

Sheridan has a rich history to be explored, and you can join us as we tour the agricultural roots of this historic town in northern Wyoming! - https://mailchi.mp/historicwyoming/surveyreminder-5406036

Thank you to Sheridan Media for this lovely article about our current fundraiser to restore our 1909 Carnegie Library building, which serves as the entrance to our museum complex. For more details, follow the link: https://sheridanmedia.com/news/136824/national-award-winning-jim-gatchell-memorial-museum-in-need-of-repairs-to-front-entrance/

Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission
Meeting Agenda
May 10, 2023
10:00
Type of Meeting: Regular meeting

Meeting Facilitator: Kristin Campbell

1. Call to order
2. Approval of minutes from meeting held on April 12, 2023
Reception of Communication
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New business
3. Review of Wyoming Open Meeting Law and SCHPC procedures
a. Updates to bylaws
b. Meeting minute publications
4. Nebraska History CLG training overview
Open business
5. Preservation month—May
a. First Congregational Church listing celebration
6. Zoila update on the Mainstreet America conference

7. Updates
a. Acme planning meeting update?--Katie
b. French Pete update--Christine
c. MOA development/consultation with USACE for the historic concrete channel in downtown Sheridan
i. No updates
Project/Committee Reports
None
7. Next meeting is a special meeting held on June 14th at 10:00 am at the Sheridan County Courthouse. We will be in the BOCC Board Room.
a. For next meeting let’s brainstorm some ideas and a plan to strategize for upcoming grant submittals.

Adjournment

Culture is who we are.
Culture is how we express ourselves.
Culture is our shared humanity.
In a fractured world, we need culture to survive and thrive.
Join us and help : https://on.unesco.org/Culture

A little over a week to get those posters in!

For complete rules and entry form visit museumbighorns.org/programs

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s THIS PLACE MATTERS campaign encourages people to celebrate the treasured and historic places in their community. The Museum at the Bighorns invites Sheridan County students k-12 to share what place in Sheridan County matters most to you. Create an 11" x 17" poster depicting your favorite historic place in the county.

Submissions are due May 1st by 5 PM. Winners will be announced at the museum on May 13th.

Questions? Email Dani Stuckle at [email protected] or call 307-675-1150.

135 years ago today, on March 11, 1888, Sheridan County was organized.

"Sheridan County, Wyoming" written by Brodie Farquhar shares a brief history of this beautiful & unique area in NE Wyoming.

"Sheridan County, Wyo. Where else can you find polo ponies, working ranches and farms, spectacular mountains, sparkling streams and vast prairies, a prestigious sanctuary for artists and writers and a history rich in American Indian lore, outlaws, pioneers, miners and Old West dude ranches?

Early History:
Today’s Sheridan County descends from the spine of the Bighorns in northern Wyoming eastward over rolling hills, verdant pastures and on across the drier plains. The region has appealed to American Indians, trappers, military men, pioneers and settlers alike.

The westward expansion of European settlements from the East started a falling-dominoes effect: tribes leaving their Eastern and Midwestern homes only to push other tribes before them. The Shoshone, whose ancestors had lived in the Bighorn foothills for thousands of years, were supplanted by the Crow, who in turn were pushed along by the Arapaho, Sioux and Cheyenne during the course of the 18th and 19th centuries." READ MORE 👉 https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/sheridan-county-wyoming

📷The Burlington railyards and roundhouse at Sheridan, looking southwest, 1910. Sheridan County Museum.

Celebrating Black History Month!

Read about the efforts happening across our state to highlight the historic contributions of African Americans in our communities in our most recent eNewsletter- https://mailchi.mp/historicwyoming/feb2023

The Stone Barn at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds. Based on my guest interview of Eileen Starr I would guess this is local stone.

Learn more on the latest episode of the podcast “Architecture in the Cowboy State”.

—Wyoming My 307 is a podcast about the people, history, places and wildlife of . Look for it wherever you listen to podcasts or click on the link in the bio.

Jo Co Historical Society to Present Collection on Bighorn National Forest A presentation on the historical collection on the Bighorn National Forest (BHNF) will be given on February 21 at the Johnson County Library. According to a release from the Johnson County Historical Society, the collection cam to the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in 2022 and is still being catalo

“Parapet” is the name for that false front on many main street buildings around Wyoming. I learned the term, and the purpose of these fronts, from my recent guest Eileen Starr. Learn more on the latest episode of the podcast “Architecture in the Cowboy State”.

—Wyoming My 307 is a podcast about the people, history, places and wildlife of . Look for it wherever you listen to podcasts or click on the link in the bio.

Couple Overhauls Drab, Awful Interior Of Iconic Onion-Shaped Bank Building In Casper | Cowboy State Daily The iconic onion-shaped building in downtown Casper has always been eye-catching from the outside. But the interior was drab and horrible. Thankfully, no longer. Owners Dr. Joe and Diane McGinley have completely overhauled it.

The Stone House is locally significant under Criterion A, because of its contributions to the social history of Sheridan County, Wyoming, as well as the development of homesteading and ranching in Wyoming during the early years of the twentieth century.
The Stone House represents the development of homesteading in northern Wyoming and the impacts that the Homestead Act of 1862 had on the state. Originally homesteaded in the late 1880s, the property had multiple owners until the 1920s reflecting the volatile nature of ranching in Wyoming. The Stone House meets the
registration requirements for Wyoming’s Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF) Wyoming Homesteading, Ranching, and Farming 1860-1960, because of its association with homesteading and ranching in Sheridan County, Wyoming. The Stone House illustrates the struggles and successes of Wyoming’s homesteaders during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The Stone House is significant under Criterion C, because it is an uncommonly well-maintained property. The property is situated in a very rural,
undeveloped area, which contribute to the property’s excellent integrity. Despite the addition of agricultural buildings, the Stone House maintains integrity of setting, location, feeling, and association because of the preservation of the surrounding rangeland and the preservation of the historic buildings. The historic buildings have not been altered significantly since construction and retain excellent integrity of design, materials, and
workmanship.

"The Overland Trail in Wyoming" written by David Johnson is a NEW article published by WyoHistory.org.

"In the wake of the California gold rush, traffic by Euro-Americans along the Oregon/California/Mormon Trail across what’s now central Wyoming grew dramatically for three years, and then, in the 1850s, stayed high. This was the old fur-trade route up the North Platte and Sweetwater rivers to South Pass, after which the routes divided according to a traveler’s destination—California, Oregon or Utah.

The increased traffic brought increasing resistance from tribal people whose lives and lands the trail cut through, heavily damaging their economies and cultures. Gold strikes on the Front Range in what’s now Colorado in the late 1850s brought a new flood of white people and more conflict. To deal with these conflicts, meet demands for new transcontinental routes into and out of Colorado and to bolster its campaign to reassert federal power in Utah, the U. S. Army developed a shorter route west. It ran across what’s now southern Wyoming, and it came to be called the Overland Trail." READ MORE: https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/overland-trail-wyoming

📷In 1850, Jim Bridger guided an expedition led by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers from Fort Bridger east past Elk Mountain, where they turned northeast to Fort Laramie. Later in the 1850s, the Army developed more of the route, which crossed what are now southern Wyoming and northeastern Colorado. Map by author.

Tip - Leave areas the way you found them. Help preserve the past by leaving cultural or historic structures for others to discover. Clean your vehicle, shoes and clothing to ensure you’re not transporting non-native plant species or seeds. Tim Kramer 📷

REMINDER: Little Big Horn College Archives is officially unveiling and launching its website of Crow Cultural and Historical Audio and Video Recordings https://lbhc-mukurtu.reclaim.hosting/.

FOOD PROVIDED AT BOTH WORKSHOPS TOMORROW THURSDAY:

There will be two programs Thursday October 13th to introduce the site and its resources and show you how to search and download.

The first one will be at noon as one of our Cultural Enrichment programs. The second will be at 6 pm.

Both programs will be live in the Library Programs Room, on Facebook, and Zoom. And if you come in person, you’ll be able to eat some tasty food. So, we hope to see you there!! Or online.

For Facebook for the noontime program, go to the LBHC Library and Archives page, and for Zoom, use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81163208616.

For Facebook for the 6 pm program, go to the LBHC Library and Archives page and for Zoom, use this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82276128949.

Special thanks to Betty and TED.

Our Grand Home Tour is this weekend, and there are still tickets available! Get them now at www.trailend.org or by stopping by the museum between 1:00 and 4:00 pm this week!

CONSERVATION FACT: SCLT has worked with 10 families to conserve their ranches the land on which they depend for perpetuity.

Help conserve local lands & ranches this September 10 from 6:30-9 pm at SCLT In Bloom, presented by Sheridan Media.

Food, drinks, live & silent auction, a raffle for a Weatherby shotgun and Q&A with archaeologist Dr. Douglas MacDonald about the 11,000-year-long history of Native American Tribes in Yellowstone.

Learn more & RSVP at https://sheridanclt.org/events/in-bloom-2022/

Rockpile to give archaeology activities tour Sept. 17 of life in Wyoming before Europeans | County 17 Rockpile to give archaeology activities tour Sept. 17 of life in Wyoming before Europeans By Mary Stroka - September 6, 2022 Facebook Twitter Print Stephan Zacharias takes aim with his custom-made atlatl next to the Campbell County Rockpile Museum on June 4 (Ryan Lewallen/County 17) GILLETTE, Wyo. ....

Congratulations Cheyenne! Great job!

The Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board is so excited to announce the completion of the Fountain Restoration Project! Special thanks to everyone who supported out fund raising efforts, and the dedication of Board members past and present, who made this all possible!

Americans at Work - National Historic Landmark Theme Study on Labor History (U.S. National Park Service) The history of work and working people is interwoven through the stories of all America’s most significant places. Labor History in the United States, a theme study released in June 2022 by the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) Program, highlights the many stories of Americans at work through curr...

Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites, & Trails - Recreation Grants Mountain bikes, boats and fishing poles are really just toys for grown-ups; so go be a kid again. After all, we've got plenty of trails for getting mud on those tires, including those in Guernsey, Buffalo Bill and Curt Gowdy State Parks. If making a splash is more your style, we've got space for wat...

Aug. 20 @ 10 am: The Trails Center's August History Club program explores the Bozeman Trail! Students will listen to Brave Eagle’s account of one of the battles along the trail and then practice illustrating their own story of a historical event to bring it to life. History Club is geared for 2nd-5th but is open to all ages. Chaperones are required to stay on-site.

'Very profound': Hundreds of residential school photos found in Rome archives | CityNews Toronto WINNIPEG — Raymond Frogner says when he found images of residential school students in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate archives in Rome, he knew he was looking at something important. “It did have a very...

Join WYDOT June 14th or 15th for a Public meeting on the Downtown Sheridan Main St. resurfacing and utility upgrade project!

90 years ago today -- June 2, 1932 -- Amelia Earhart arrived in Cheyenne during her coast to coast flight. Earhart called her plane an "autogiro" with the flight sponsored by Beechnut chewing gum. For the most part, the autogiro looked like a regular airplane but someone had placed a big propeller on top.

She used the highway below in order to navigate coast to coast. After arriving, Earhart spent the night in Cheyenne, then left for Denver. She returned to Cheyenne about 4:30 p.m. that day, according to a report in the Wyoming State Tribune and Cheyenne State Leader, who claimed that half the city turned out to see her at the airport. From Cheyenne, it was on to Laramie, Parco, and then Rock Springs.

L-R: William Haas, Miss Frontier Edith Gogert, Amelia Earhart, and Mayor Ed Story.

Image courtesy of Wyoming State Archives