Past Events

Historic Book Club

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Senior Memory Books

Attention high school seniors! Graduation is a big event, congratulations. We know that the class of 2020 is experiencing a very different senior year than you expected, and you won’t be able to celebrate your graduation with your friends like you hoped. The Sweetwater County Historical Museum wants to help preserve all the great memories you’ve made together in a new way.  

For many years the students of Sweetwater County produced memory books with newspaper clippings, drawings, play bills, pictures, poems, and many other things that symbolized their high school experience. The Green River High class of 1932 even wrote a “will” where each senior left a special something to the underclassmen.  We want to help you preserve your shared memories too!

The Museum houses many of these books in its collections and we’d like to continue the tradition with a 21^st century twist: a digital memory book! You could do a screenshot, a selfie, or digital artwork! Whatever you want, just make sure it’s Safe For Work (and school 😉)! We encourage you be to creative, we know you probably have better ideas than just those listed here!

• You could even work with other students and create a full digital book page (see some of the examples below)

• You can submit them to the Museum directly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or use the hashtag #sweetwaterWYhighscoolmemories don’t forget to include your name (whatever one you want remembered!) and school. The more students that participate the more complete the memory.

The Sweetwater County Historical Museum will do our best to preserve these digital formats, and make sure they can all be found under the hashtag and online as Facebook albums for each class.

You can see some examples in this document and this document

8th grade western expansion tour

8th grade students from rock Springs Junior High School joined Public Engagement Coordinator Aidan Brady for a special tour on Western Expansion and Manifest Destiny. The students had been assigned a special worksheet on similar themes and each student was expected to ask at least one question. 

If you would like to schedule a tour for your students or group please contact the museum at 307-872-6435 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 3rd grade classes are encouraged to attend our annual 3rd Grade History Fair in May.

Family Fun Saturday-Qute Quilts

On Saturday February 22, 2020 the museum hosted it's monthy Family Fun Saturday, with a quilt theme. Participants designed their own quilt squares made of foam. The event ran from 11 AM until 1 PM. The event corresponded wiht the 3rd Annual Quilt Display which was on display until April 4, 2020. The Annual Quilt Display is an arrangment between the Sweetwater County Historical Museum and Sweetwater County Quilt Guild.

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