Penrose School: Page from Mom's Black Photo Album

Apologies if this has been posted before.  What is amazing is how many people and children there were in Penrose once upon a time.  The picture on lower right is, if memory serves me, Lucinda Wasden.

Might be the Ranch at Medicine Bow where Mom taught children at a ranch home? From Her Album

Early Penrose School House and Children, from Mom's Photo Album

Near the River

The River in Spring

Sixty Years Ago When the Shoshone River Had A Lot of Water in it

Shoshone River Near Home in Penrose

Dad and Dwight's kids by Shoshone River

The Shoshone River in Winter

Shoshone River at Penrose in Winter

Steve, Russell, and Ron at Shoshone River dam

Old Penrose Bridge

A side view of the old Penrose Bridge, which consisted of two original railroad bridges placed end-to-end.  Question:  how on earth did they haul the railroad bridges in here at that early date?  You can see the middle pier, which was our private fishing and hiding out place just to watch the river flow by.

More about the Penrose Bridge

This article appeared in the Powell Tribune in 1993, two years before Uncle David Wasden died. (1995) He has one date wrong - the bridge was replaced in 1968, because that was the summer that I and my brood of 5 were living in Penrose, and it was pretty inconvenient while they were doing the replacement of the bridge. This was very interesting. Hope you can read it. By the way, the picture that was published with this article was Dwight's familiar picture of the river bridge that is already published somewhere in this blog.
By the way, be sure to double click on this page to enlarge the article so that you can read it.

Good Roads Day Revisited

These pictures of the 1919 Good Roads Day add to the panoramic picture that we have. In the top picture, it looks like the women worked right alongside the men - then they put on the big dinner at the church house. In the bottom picture, you can see Grandpa Wasden with the team of horses. I don't suppose that the roads were all that wonderful when they were all finished? But, it was a great community effort for the little village of Penrose, Wyoming