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Sundance State Bank
| Also known as Bid Building
Location: 301 Main St., Sundance Wyoming
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Link & Haire
Area of Significance: Economics, Architecture
Period of Significance: 1900-1949
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Commerce/Trade
Historic Sub-function: Financial Institution
Distance from Pine Haven: 31 miles Time: 37 minutes
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Sundance School
| Also known as Old Stoney
Location: 108 N. Fourth St., Sundance Wyoming
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Link & Haire
Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning And Development
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Owner: Local Gov't
Historic Function: Education
Currently being renovated for the new Crook County Museum.
Distance from Pine Haven: 31 miles Time: 37 minutes
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Inyan Kara Mountain
Rising only 600 ft above the floor of the plains. Inyan Kara Mountain stands as one of the most important cultural and historical landmarks of the Black Hills  which forms an important part of the sacred geography of the Black hills for the Lakota and other northern Plains tribes. Traditional beliefs link Inyan Kara with other widely recognized sacred sites including Devils Tower AKA Bear Lodge, Sundance Mountain and Bear Butte in South Dakota. The entire Black Hills region is a spiritual landscape which lies at the core of the traditional belief systems. The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie included this spiritual landscape as part of the reservation established for the Lakota in South Dakota and unceded Indian Territory in Wyoming, from which Euro-Americans were banned without express consent. However exclusive use of the Black Hills by the Lakota proved short-lived. In 1874, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer lead an expedition of 1000 men, 110 wagons and 300 cattle to the Black Hills in order to scout for likely places to establish military posts and to explore for gold. Custer’s column reached Inyan Kara on July 22, 1874. On July 23, Custer climbed to the summit of Inyan Kara. Leaving the inscription "74 Custer." While camped at the base of the mountain, two of Custer’s soldiers died: George Turner from a gunshot wound and John Cunningham from dysentery. Custer’s incursion into the Black Hills resulted in the discovery of gold near Deadwood, South Dakota. The resulting gold rush provoked the Lakota, culminating in the the bloody military campaigns of 1876 and Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little big Horn.
Inyan Kara Mountain is located About 15 miles South of Sundance Wyoming in the Black Hills National Forest
GPS coordinates N 104.346256 and W -104.346256 Map it |
Devils Tower National Monument
Entrance to Devils Tower
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Also known as Entrance Checking Station Devils Tower National Monument.
The Cabin was built in 1941 and Design for dual use as an entrance station and as a residence. It features a unique porch with rough-cut projecting log ends in a scooped pattern. The interior was renovated in 1999, replacing the living spaces with office space.
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Visitor Center Area
Headquarters building
Custodian's house
Fire hose house
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The Old Headquarters Area at Devils Tower National Monument includes three structures and their surroundings, including the old headquarters building, the custodian's house, and the fire hose house. The buildings are all designed in the National Park Service Rustic style.
Funded as an Emergency Conservation Works project and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935, the old administration building was used as the monument's headquarters and museum until 1959. At that time, headquarters was relocated to the campground area, while the building continued its function as the park's primary visitor center. Today the main level of the building serves as the visitor center; the basement level has public restrooms, museum storage, interpreter's office, library, storage for search and rescue and first aid equipment and supplies, and a fuel oil furnace. The upper level, originally designed for use as a bedroom, is now used for storage and houses an evaporative cooler.
The custodian's residence was designed by the NPS Landscape Division under the direction of Chief Landscape Architect Thomas Chalmers Vint and constructed in 1931 by a private contractor, Mr. Cummings of Deadwood, South Dakota. The building first served as the residence of the monument's second custodian, George C. Crowe. The original structure had five rooms: living room, bedroom, breakfast nook kitchen, and bathroom. The fire hose house was constructed as ECW Project #17. Work was completed by August 10, 1937, "except for shelves," according to the hand-written note on the architectural plans. The fire hose house was designed and used to house the fire hydrant and to store the monument's hose and fire fighting equipment. It has been used for that purpose since 1937.
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Devils Tower Ladder
Located Back side of the tower east of the Visitor Center Area
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The Ladder at Devils Tower was first constructed and used in 1893 by William Rogers and Willard Ripley to publicly ascend Devil's Tower. Two years later Roger's wife Linnie ascended the tower via the ladder, one of a total of about 215 who have used the ladder. The last use was by Babe "The Human Fly" White in 1927.
The present tower ladder consists of a series of wooden stakes connected on the outside by vertical wood planks. One end of each stake is driven sideways into a rock crevice, vertically ascending the southeast side of the tower. Attached with nails and/or bailing wire to the other end of the stakes are 12-inch lengths of 1 x 4 - inch lumber. The ladder ascends from about 100 feet above the ground to the summit, and is about 170 feet long. Because of its small scale in comparison to the tower, it is very difficult to see in modern photographs, and visitors to the tower usually must view it through a telescope. The lowest 100 feet were removed in the 1930s as a safety measure. The remaining ladder was restored in 1972
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DXN Bridge over Missouri River
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Southern side of the DXN Bridge over Missouri River, which carries County Road 18-200 over a tributary of the Missouri River. Built in 1920, this Pratt pony truss bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Historic Architecture & Engineering
Located North of Hulett WY. and West of State Highway 112
GPS Coordinates 44°59'59"N - 104°30'44"W Map it
Distance from Pine Haven: 74.2 miles Time: 1 hour 51 minutes
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Wyoming Mercantile
Also known as Aladdin General Store and the Aladdin Store and Post Office.
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The Aladdin General Store built in 1896 is the largest and most prominent building that make up the town along both sides of highway 24. The Aladdin Store and Post Office is significant for its association with the settlement and economic development of the town. It is also a rare and well-preserved example of late 19th century vernacular mercantile architecture, and one of five 19th century mercantiles left in the state which represent the settlement and economic development of that period.
Through out the years the Aladdin Store has housed a general store, a bar, a post office, a barber shop and telephone office.
The Store has also proven to be quite a popular place for anyone en route to Devils Tower. They just can't pass by without resting a bit and enjoying refreshment and kickin' back on the front porch.
Located East of Hulett WY. and Highway 111 on State Highway 24
GPS Coordinates 44°38'24"N - 104°11'57"W Map it
Distance from Pine Haven: 51 miles Time: 1 hour
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Vore Buffalo Jump
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The Vore Buffalo Jump is an archeological site with about five percent of the site being excavated and is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo. in Crook County, Wyoming.
The sinkhole was formed when gypsum soil was eroded, leaving a steep-sided pit about 40 feet deep and 200 feet in diameter where Native American hunters would stampede bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were driven into it from about 1300 AD to about 1700 AD. Lithic evidence suggests that the Kiowa and Apache used the site as they migrated southwards to their modern home in the Texas-New Mexico region. Later other Native American tribes using the Vore site included the Shoshone, Hidatsa, Crow and Cheyenne.
Located in a narrow strip of land between I-90 and US 14, 4 miles west of the Sand Creek Rd on US 14 at I-90 Exit 205
GPS Coordinates 44°32'9"N - 104°9'24"W Map it
Distance from Pine Haven: 45 miles Time: 56 minutes
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Ranch A
Also known as Ranch A Educational Center
The only restriction is that organizations using the Center must be educational with no personal use permitted.
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Built by Finnish craftsmen to the specifications of Moses Annenberg began the building of Ranch A In 1932, a ranch in name only, which was to be a vacation spot for Annenberg, his family, relatives and friends. Costing over $1,000,000 and taking two years to build, Ranch A consisted of an eight-bedroom lodge, a garage with spacious living quarters upstairs, a large horse barn, and four cabins--all of pine log construction. Original blueprints show a large swimming pool which was never built, probably due to the short length of time that the days would be warm enough to encourage swimming. Electricity was supplied by Annenberg's own generating plant, powered by the flowing water of Sand Creek.
The main lodge sits back against the canyon with a vast lawn area in front. A landscaping blueprint shows meticulous planning for a horticultural extravaganza. Plants, trees and flowers of a variety not before seen in this area were to be planted in circles, squares and designs all about the grounds. It is not known whether the plan was ever fully realized. A fountain in the center of the lawn was a focal point around which small spruce trees were planted, trees which now are grown so large that the rock base of the fountain is almost hidden. Only the pine and spruce trees, a few lilac bushes, and a wide expanse of grass remain of what must have once been a sight to delight the eyes of Moe Annenberg's guests.
The lodge has a huge main floor room suggestive of a hotel lobby, with a stone fireplace at one end, which accommodates five-foot logs, its chimney reaching upward to another fireplace on the second floor balcony that surrounds the room. The eight bedrooms and five baths occupy three sides of the balcony floor. Big game trophy heads hang from the balcony railing, coyote heads appear as part of light fixtures, and a bobcat head adorns a gun cabinet. Navajo rugs, woven on looms larger than any now in existence, hung on the walls.
Located along Sand Creek 5 miles south of I-90 Exit 205
GPS Coordinates 44°29'25"N - 104°6'37"W Map it
Distance from Pine Haven: 56 miles 1 hour 18 minutes
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(Other Places in Wyoming Listed in the National Register of Historical Places)
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