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Pictures of the Rock Springs Municipal Building: Rock Springs Municipal Building, published, 9 August 1894, in the Rock Springs Miner Old black and white photograph of the Rock Springs Municipal Building, unknown date. Rock Springs Municipal Building (now the museum) September 2013. Painting of the Rock Springs Municipal Building, September 2013, Rock Springs Historical Museum. Rock Springs Miner, 11 May 1893, Town Election where the City Hall was submitted for a vote:  196 votes for and 151 votes against.  The proposition carried by a mere 45 votes!  (Wyoming Newspaper Project online) Rock Springs Museum, jail windows, September 2013, RR&B

The Rock Springs Historical Museum 201 B Street, Rock Springs, Wyoming 82901, 307-362-3138 Painting of the Rock Springs Municipal Building, September 2014, Rock Springs Historical Museum. The building was empty until the Rock Springs Centennial Celebration in 1988. Through the hard work and dedication of volunteers, the museum was opened on 4 June 1988. Artifacts were loaned and donated by local residents and the volunteers created many exhibits to show what it was like to live in Rock Springs. In 1991-1992 with funds from the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program the building underwent a 1.7 million dollar restoration to bring it back to its 1890’s condition. Exhibits are rotated regularly. Display from coal mining exhibit, September 2014, Rock Springs Historical Museum The museum houses a coal mining exhibit that features many historical photographs, coal miner’s lamps, coal miner’s tools, maps, and other interesting features that examine the life and ti...

Davidson's, Iowa's Largest furniture Store on Walnut Street. Source: Des Moines Register, 16 April 1090, page 4, online at Newspaper Archive.

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Davidson's, Iowa's Largest furniture Store on Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa. Be sure to read the description! "You'll delight in its surprising cooking qualities. . ." Source: Des Moines Register, 16 April 1090, page 4, online at Newspaper Archive.

How are you coming on this year's RR&B goal of journaling?  If you have accepted the goal, and written once a month then you will have 10 entries.  If you have written twice a month then you will have 20 entries.  If you have written once a week you will have 40 entries! I have written 30 entries, so that is about three times a month.  Some months more, some months less, but the important thing is I am writing and recording my life!!!! And I am forming a habit!!!

First National Bank Building, Rock Springs Rocket, 30 May 1919 Rock Springs Rocket 20 May 1919  The new First National Bank building which has just been completed, is a structure that Rock Springs may well feel a pride in having.   In fact, the institution is a credit to any city, and the expenditure of capital that was necessary to construct such a building, shows the confidence of the investors in the permanency of Rock Springs as well as a confidence in the future growth of the city.   The building stands a credit to the town and may be seen for miles from every direction as you come into the town. The new bank building occupies an area of 40 by 140 feet, facing on S. Front street and also on a side street, which in time we presume, may be called “Wall” street or perhaps “Bank” street. As one enters the main floor, or banking room, they are at once impressed with the beauty of the room and the ample space.    In the front is a sort of ...

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Source: Des Moines Daily News, 16 April 1909, Newspaper Archive online.

I have signed up for the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, ISBGFH, 2014 British Institute in Salt Lake October 20-24.     The ISBGFH website explains:     “Our popular British Institute offers a week of total immersion into British research topics. Held annually in October at Salt Lake City, British Institute courses are especially designed to help you develop your research skills in British and Irish records. With instructors there to guide you throughout the day, classes are held each morning followed by a full afternoon at the Family History Library, utilizing their outstanding British collections and applying the research techniques and analytical skills learned in your Institute class.” I am so excited not only to attend the classes, but also the format in which the classes are taught:   class time in the morning and afternoon researching using what you learned from the morning!   The followin...