Guernsey State Park Museum

Guernsey State Park Museum is the most impressive log and stone building in the park, a massive structure built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Much of its material was crafted by hand, with a roof framed by heavy hand-hewn timbers and covered with split cedar shakers, floors made from flagstone quarried at Thermopolis, Wyoming, and a front door and library paneling of Florida "pecky" cypress. The building took about 6,100 man hours to construct at a cost of about $3200 in the mid-1930’s. The Civilian Conservation Corps, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression as relief for jobless men and conservation for the land, became known as the "Tree Army" and worked on projects from planting trees to building bridges. Some of the men who came in the 1930’s later returned and made Guernsey their home.

Wyoming · United States