More Gunnison Pioneer Museum

The museum is in a campus type setting with a number of buildings holding displays of pioneer artifacts and some buildings from pioneer times.

In the railroad depot we found this wonderful trunk complete with its interior compartment boxes. They are very elaborately covered with drawings and scrolling. I have seen many trunks but never with the original interior.
This typewritten page was found on the teachers desk in one of the school houses on the campus. It is full of advice on how to conduct yourself as a teacher and how to save money for your old age. If you click on it and make it larger maybe you can read it as well.









In the first building we went through there was a large display of arrowheads found around the southwest. This display held 1,500 specimens. There were a couple of other displays of arrowheads and it was quite impressive.





This school house was unique and interesting to us. It was built 1910 for a cost of $1,900.00. The man who built it had a background in shipping and he fashioned the room on the front right into a round almost lighthouse looking room. The windows were curved to fit the shape of the room!

There was way too much to list here and we would recommend a visit to see it all.