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Thursday, June 28, 2012

postheadericon Cheri June-28-12

8:31 PM | Posted by Sharp's Travels

Today we headed into Gunnison to check out the Pioneer Museum.  It has an extensive collection of memorabilia and artifacts from throughout Gunnison County.  There were 18 buildings to go through.


There were two rural school houses, Log Cabin Chapel, Barn, a house with early-day furnishings, Gunnison’s first Post Office (1876), carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, print shop, telephone display from the late 1800’s, arrowhead & mineral collection, extensive military collection with a big display of guns, doll collection and early period clothing display.  They also had D&RG Narrow Gauge train with water tank and depot.


Gay & I really liked the extensive collection of antique cars.  Over 75 cars in this collection belonged to one person.


It took us about 4 hours to go through everything and just as we were finishing up there was a loud clap of thunder and the sky opened up with a down poured rain and hail.


There were piles of hail outside the museum.  We waited there about 45 minutes for the storm to get over.  The sky still looked black and so we decided to head back to the 5th wheel.


At 5pm we headed down to the Club House for their Goulash Dinner.  There were only 10 people who signed up.  The food was ok and we ate more than we should of.  It was a nice ending to a great day.


To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Gunnison Pioneer Museum.

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