Impact mining has had on the area. Colt has a star in the geological past of wyoming. At various times throughout this areas history, before it became a state, most people might not realize that looking at wyoming nowadays, but wyoming used to be subtropical to tropical regions and at one point, we were actually an ocean. Intof that has factored the fossil fuels within the state, whether they be natural so, that coal, and prehistory sets the stage for modernday sheridan and the story of coal here. In 1880, some of the first outcroppings of coal are discovered on private lands. The landowners at that time discovered, especially if the seams were open, that they could not only mine the coal for their personal usage, weather in outbuildings or in their homes, but they also began the business of taking that coal and they would offer it for delivery to residents of sheridan or in some cases, they offered it for a fee for residents to come to be vain and mind as much coal as they could carry back to town. That went on until the Burlington Northern arrived in 1892, and at that point, sheridan really experiences an economic boom, not just with coal. The coal was one of the dominating factors of that boom, and because burlington not only wanted the coal for their trains , they also wanted to be able to ship it to eastern markets. 1893 is when, in we really see the first coal camp, which would eventually thatition into a town, and was a community founded by several businessmen of the sheridan community. At this time, it is important to realize that mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the american west. Sawing mining especially several catastrophes that would eventually lead to a much Larger Movement of the Mining Community on a national scale. Even with the dangers of the minds, we still had immigrants from across europe and even japan move here to participate in the mines. From this immigration, we see the formation of monarch in the 1904, we hadn another come about, which would 1911, anotherd in is brought into existence. The story of mining is obviously very important to the history of sheridan county. One of the ways that we tell it ishin the Museum Setting through the two dioramas. Monarchhem is the during a time when monarch was experiencing great growth, and the other is a sliced view of the mountainside. It shows the various rooms and operations that went into the mining process, before these transitioned into stripmining that people know and recognize today. Of the mining communities here in sheridan, acme, wyoming, and monarch are the only that have remains of what was actually once there. Acmes powerplant still stands and monarch, the only two structures in existence are the water tower and the st. Thomas church. With the dioramas, they provide an opportunity for visitors to see that at one point in time, monarch was a thriving community. It had a tennis court, a hotel, a hospital, things that we recognize as being a necessity for community survival, and yet because these communities were companyowned, they were at the mercy of the company finances. Opportunity toe see monarch thriving, but we also have quite a few people continue to come into the museum and they remember growing up in monarch. Several factors went into the decline of coal in sheridan county. One was that stripmining became a more popular, requiring less manpower. Additionally, the minds has hadted to lose mines started to lose finances. Monarch suffered a fire that hampered production for a significant amount of time. In 1911, there was a financial crisis on a state and National Level that affected coal prices. The community was offered a boost for a short time. At the end of the war, most of the mines closed. It was not until september 1 of 1953 that monarch as a community ceased to exist. Sheridan Coal Community Sheridan Coal Company notified residents that they had until that september to eventually get out. Here at the museum, we do try to show the cultural aspect of these communities. To only beot made it temporary institutions. They were supposed to last. We focus, for example, on the fact that each community had a band, and everyone played an instrument they were comfortable with. Wasband in particular fairly massive. In this exhibit, we try to provide visitors with an opportunity to understand the legacy and time of coal on a much larger scale. And to have a greater andrstanding of the impact story that is within coal from not only the immigration standpoint, not only the economic and industrial might that it had provided announcer to watch more video, visit cspan. Org. You are watching cspan, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Margaret creighton talks about fair,ok in the 1901 world recountsshe the assassinatio p
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