Hayden Heritage Center Museum Exhibits

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Hayden downtown and town pump - 1913 [Click here to view full size picture]

The Museum boasts an extensive photograph collection thanks to many local donors.

Historic Saddles [Click here to view full size picture]

Many historic saddles from the area's pioneers are on display.

Rock Collection [Click here to view full size picture]

The Sullivan Rock & Fossil Collection was gathered by a Hayden couple back in the mid-1900's. The collection is extensive and would be the envy of many larger museusms.

Semotan Quarter Horse display [Click here to view full size picture]

The Semotans were breeders of some of the finest Foundation Sires of the American Quarter Horse Registry.

The Routt County Republican Printing Press [Click here to view full size picture]

The Routt County Republican printing press was brought to Hayden in 1908 and actively used until the paper was transferred to printing in Steamboat Springs under the name of The Hayden Valley Press in the 1970's.

Kitchen of the 20's [Click here to view full size picture]

The Museum's kitchen display brings one back to the early 20th century.

Kit Carson Log [Click here to view full size picture]

Kit Carson traveled through the area numerous times throughout the late 1840s through 1860. In the spring of 1850 he was traveling near Hayden, with several other men on their way up to Ft. Laramie and then on to California for gold. (Kit was illiterate, but was traveling with men who could not only write, but kept journals of their travels.) A friend, possibly Tim Goodale, carved Kit's name (misspelled with a 'd') on the log, with the date and the intentions of heading out to California. Several weeks later, Kit received word that his wife had given birth, early, to their first child, and he headed back home instead of going on West. This log dates to 1820s making it large enough to have been carved on in April of 1850.