The Hanna Basin Museum is housed in the former Linden Hall, a bar and dance hall. Linden Hall was sold to John Thomas. The building was utilized as a pool hall during Prohibition (January, 1920 to December, 1933). After the death of John Thomas in the twenties the pool hall was utilized as a community center. The building was used as a meeting house for the African American Methodist Church, school classrooms, basketball games, library, monthly socials, and as a movie theater after the Opera House was destroyed in a fire in 1926. Union Pacific Coal Company provided funds to refurbish the building with a kitchen, shelving for the library, and wrought iron light fixtures. The wrought iron light fixtures are still in use today. The Community Club House was dedicated in 1931. For fifty years the building was the site of dances, parties, weddings, funerals, civic organization meetings, and the Hanna Library. Union Pacific sold the building to the Town of Hanna in 1954 for one dollar. The Community Club House was used to host youth clubs, Town library, city hall, and kindergarten. In 1990 the Town of Hanna and the Hanna Basin Historical Society made an informal agreement to create the Hanna Basin Museum. It is only fitting that a building that has witnessed so many changes in the community is now housing the history of the folks that made Hanna a community. The Hanna Basin Museum has grown to include a cottage that was once a Union Pacific miner’s house and the Victor Anderson Exhibit Hall that is the home of the retired Hanna-Elmo Volunteer fire engine. The museum features collections that honor the work and sacrifices of the past citizens of Hanna, Wyoming. We welcome you to our museum and community.