Monday, October 27
Presentation: The Ryan Park Site
The Johnson County Historical Society sponsors a presentation by Dave McKee on The Ryan Park Site, a Civilian Conservation Corps & World War II Prisoner of War Camp in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Southern Wyoming.
The presentation will be 6:30 p.m. on Monday, October 27, at the Twing Room in the Johnson County Library.
In 1879, Tom T. Ryan established a sawmill in an open park on the west slope of the Medicine Bow Mountains. A community sprang up and a post office was established in 1903. In the 1930s, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp established, from which crews constructed the buildings and roads still in use today. During World War II, the site was converted to a POW camp for Italians and Germans.
The presentation will be made by Dave McKee, president of the Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association. He completed a 32-year career with the U.S. Forest Service as an archaeologist, tribal liaison, and recreation program manager, working on the Medicine Bow, Black Hills, and Bighorn National Forests. He received a master’s degree in anthropology with an emphasis in plains archaeology from the University of Wyoming. Dave and his wife Susan live in Sheridan.
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Monday, October 27
WHERE: Johnson County Public Library (Twing Room), 171 N. Adams Ave., Buffalo WY 82834
