Green River Valley Museum closed for the season

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Green River Valley Museum. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.

Green River Valley Museum The museum has displays of local area history.

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Green River Valley Museum closed for the season
by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
October 16, 2008

The Green River Valley Museum in Big Piney held an Open House on Tuesday, October 14th, for their final day of the season. The Open House was to give people who hadn't had a chance to visit yet to stop by and see the new displays.

Featured exhibits in the museum include prehistoric Indian artifacts, restored homesteader cabin, pioneer homesteading and townsite development, early ranching/branding, area oil and gas history, historic oil field tools, family-operated coal mines, Big Piney Examiner newspaper presses, Campfire Girls display, oral histories, visiting exhibits.

The Museum is open from June 15 to October 15th. It is a nonprofit corporation, formed to perpetuate and preserve the history and culture of the Green River Valley. Although it receives some support from Sublette County, it is largely dependent on funds from private sources for operations. Admission is by donation.

To schedule individual tours or for special exhibits, call 307-276-5343.

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Green River Valley Museum The museum is open summers between June 15th to October 15th on Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission is by donation.	Back Building	Sommers-Price Schoolhouse The Sommers-Price Schoolhouse was moved to the Green River Valley Museum and restored.
Homestead Cabins Homestead cabins at the Green River Valley Museum.	Museum Displays The Big Piney Examiner printing presses are on display at the Museum.	Of Cattle and Men
Burnham Building Burnham building, the old Big Piney store and drug store.	Wardell Buffalo Trap Mural This beautiful mural is an oil by artists Lynn Thomas, Charmain McLellan, Ruth Rawhouser, assisted by Betty Pfaff, Tib Sutherland, Ann Anspach and Mary Krause.	Wardell Display Wardell Buffalo Trap display.
Wardell Buffalo Trap The Wardell Buffalo Trap is located not far from Big Piney.	1919 Model T 1919 Model T used by Frank Burney to make deliveries for Burney & Co, Big Piney's grocery store.	Motorized Tobaggan Glen Wise built this motorized tobaggan around 1940 for his three small children to use to get to school. He also used it to get the the light plant that generated electricity for Pinedale.
Homestead Cabin	Crossing the Green - 1914 Photo of Jack Howard’s mule team crossing the Green River in the fall of 1914. Mr. Howard operated a ferry business.	Budd No. 1 Gas Well The first in the Big Piney shallow field blew in at the Corder Place on December 4, 1938. Tons of ice covered the derrick before the well was shut down six weeks later. This is one of the historic photos about the early oil and gas industry on display at the Green River Valley Museum in Big Piney. The Museum held their final Open House on Tuesday, October 14th. The Museum is now closed for the season. They will reopen again on June 15, 2009. Admission is by donation.

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