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On Saturday, June 29, around 30 people joined Chip King, Director of Operations Museum at the Bighorns, and Greg Luhman, Vice-President of the Board, at Branding Iron Park in Clearmont for the History Happy Hour.
King explained how the history happy hour started.
The Clearmont Historical Group hosted the event, and provided hamburgers, hot dogs and non-alcoholic beverages. Anyone was free to bring the beverage of their choice as well. King had this comment about the hospitality offered in Clearmont.
Ira Roadifer, Clearmont Historical Group, started the conversation, talking about how the Clearmont Historical Group came to be to preserve the history of the Clear Creek Valley. He talked the town of Huson, which was abandoned when the railroad bypassed the site.
The town of Clearmont was incorporated in 1919, and some of the original buildings are still standing. He talked about the many uses of the Clearmont Historical Center building over the years before it was purchased by the Clearmont Historical Group to be used as a place to preserve the history as well as include a small museum. It was the first original post office building, as before that time the post offices were inside stores. Then it was a variety store, a couple cafes, and most recently the Red Dawg Saloon.
Leland Sanders, who has written three books for the group about the Passaic, Ucross and Leiter areas, which are for sale at the Historical Center, talked about the short-lived Wyoming Railroad.
Roadifer added there were sixteen gates between Clearmont and Buffalo crossing the tracks. One of the old engines is still on display at the Buffalo City Park.
Dwight E. Layton talked about his family, Dick and Agnes Greco, who came from Italy and settled in Clearmont. For years they ran the Texaco Station in Ucross.
Clearmont Mayor Chris Schock talked about the Sunnybrook Cemetery in Clearmont. Schock said the first time he was mayor, Terry Foster, founder of the Clearmont Historical Group, approached him about having a sign erected at the Cemetery.
Other historic facts discussed were the coming of the railroad, the old jail, the Lincoln Land Company, Leiter Estates, the concert grain elevators and the German POW Camp during WWII.
After the lively discussion, the Clearmont Historical Center and Museum was open for anyone who wanted to take a tour.
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