I'm always looking for new sources on western buildings and some how I stumbled across this one yesterday; 1880 town.
Its in South Dakota so I should make a trip out and visit it next year. Its not a "real" town in the sense that is an existing frontier town but it has been put together from buildings the owners purchased and transported to the site. Buildings range from the 1880 - 1920s. There aren't nearly enough pictures on the site but there are enough to see some of the more unique buildings on the site. I can't find it now but somewhere YouTube is a video of the inside of the saloon. Now I would question if this was a saloon or a theater. Most saloons don't have a stage, but the interior shots are very interesting none the less.
If by chance any of my followers are from SD and near Murdo and have pictures I would love to see them!
1880 Town
it looks very interesting ! a quite mysterious town it seems !!
ReplyDeleteI hope that you will get some more pictures.
I will. I just don't think I can get there this year before their season closes. There are a couple of places like this that I would like to get to next year. Maybe I'll take a real vacation next year.
DeleteWhen you go to the town on holiday, do you get to stay in that town? Is it a functioning vacation town or do you go on tours through the buildings. It would be cool if they had a place like this where you got to wear the clothes and eat the food from the period on a vacation package.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you can stay in this one, although Murdo is only 20 miles a west, that's practically next door out here in the west. They do tours you can do self-guided tours, they have wagon rides and you can rent costumes for your day there. I don't think they have a package so its probably only a day long thing. I'm definitely going to try and get out there next season.
DeleteLaramie has a town recreation at the site of the territorial prison. (And you can do tours of the prison.)
ReplyDeleteFt. Laramie has several reconstructed buildings, including a fully furnished cavalry barracks. (The furnishings came direct from an Army warehouse; probably from a pallet behind the Ark of the Covenant. 8- ) )
And I trust you've been up to Fairplay. It has one of the best of the museum town recreations I've seen. Even old drugs in the drugstore.
I have not been to Laramie, so I'll have to add that to my list. I have been up to Fairplay several times although my pictures were lost in a computer crash (now I really make sure everything is backed up, that time I missed two files). I need to get back up there and recover those pictures the hard way.
ReplyDeleteSince you mentioned both Laramie and Fairplay, but not Ft. Laramie, I should probably mention that Ft. Laramie is nowhere near Laramie. And neither one is in Laramie County, of course. 8-)
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