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Homesteader Museum located in Powell, Wyoming, presents over 50 years of local homesteading, community development, and family stories that make the Big Horn Basin a prime example of the U.S. Reclamation Acts role in settling the West. The town of Powell is named after John Wesley Powell, the United States Explorer and Engineer who championed dam, diversion and irrigation systems in the arid Rocky Mountain West.
The town of Powell became home to one of the earliest Bureau of Reclamation Projects in the United States. Known as the Shoshone Reclamation Project of 1904, the Big Horn Basin is home to a large federally funded irrigation and homesteading project in the Rocky Mountain West.
Through our collection of artifacts, historic buildings, oral histories, and photographs; the Homesteader Museum offers an insightful peek into the rugged homesteading life of the early Big Horn Basin pioneer.
As a nonprofit museum, we use our resources to preserve, educate, and share the history of homesteading life in the Garden Spot of Wyoming.
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Powell has a rich history of agriculture and entrepreneurship. Showcasing homesteader dedication and resourcefulness of the four Shoshone Project Divisions in the area is the museum’s pride and joy.
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As a nonprofit museum, we use our resources to preserve, educate, and share the history of homesteading life in the Garden Spot of Wyoming.
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