I found the announcement that the Wetmore-Hardscrabble Genealogical and Historical Society has had a grand opening in the old Wetmore Post Office building to be of personal interest. My mother was born and raised in Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado in 1911. Wetmore, Colorado is southeast of Canon City in Custer County, south of Florence (now best known of the ADX supermax prison) on Highway 67. Hardscrabble was a community that basically disappeared in the mid-nineteenth century. It was located between where Florence and Wetmore are today. I get back to the Canon City area every now and then, never missing a family reunion held there. I’m hoping to visit the new facility the next time I’m in the area.
Two years to the day Jeannie Culpin purchased the historic Wetmore Post Office building, she hosted a grand
opening to celebrate the Wetmore-Hardscrabble Genealogical and Historical Society that now is open to the public by appointment.
“This is the best thing that’s happened to Wetmore,” said Frank Porter, Culpin’s cousin, Saturday during the open house.
The cousins grew up in the Wetmore-Hardscrabble area, as did all four of their grandparents.
A collection already is on display at the center, including old beaver gloves that belonged to Ike Taylor, Porter’s great-great-grandfather, an old camera, a Navajo blanket owned by the Bowers family, a butter churn and a 1910 Bell telephone. Also on display are a Carbide mining lamp from the Corley Mine, a 1910 published leather bound set of Encyclopedia Britannica and a pull-down U.S. map that once hung in the former Wetmore School.
Read the full article in the October 26, 2009 edition of the Canon City Daily Record.
We have memorabilia from early pioneer families by the name of Wendell and Amos Yost and Mamie Bernard Yost. If these items would be of interest to the museum, please respond. Also we are looking for any descendents of Amos Yost.
I was thrilled to see this site and am also interested in the note from Kay Whitlock as Mamie Bernard Yost is part of my family and I’d be delighted to know about the stuff she has.
The Bernards were one of the branches of the pioneer Blakeslee family, (as are the Bowers, mentioned in the earlier post).
Hi, I am a descendant of the Blakeslee and Bowers family and I have done extensive genealogy. Also, I have some information about the Bernard family and all the families the Blakeslee children married into. Let’s share information.
Looking for Wetmore (family) information…. If you folks have anything I’d love to share….
Hi I’m looking for any information on the Holestine family. Any help would be greatly appreciated as most of my family who lived there is gone or can no longer remember.
Thanks!
Katie