Photo Credit Cracked Compass Photography Dr. Andrew Gulliford at his lecture on Bears Ears

While these modern looking devices do not seem very historic, the purchase of them will enable the Allen Nossaman Archive to increase the storage capacity of the 1000 square foot vault by about 250%. While the $ 55,000 price tag may seem high, it would be about 1/ 4 the cost of new construction, even if we had the room to do that.

Silverton school teacher Whitney Gaskill’s fourth and fifth grade students made a number of field trips and did extensive research to make many contributions to this latest major exhibit at the Silverton Museum. As the primary occupants of this area prior to the white settlements in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Ute Indians and their culture is an important area of study for our understanding of the land in which we live.

The Mayflower Mill in its full 1920s glory. Today it is owned by the San Juan County Historical Society and visitors can learn just what was going on here with a tour. The tram terminal at the east end was featured in the 1957 movie “ Night Passage”. A gunfight at the location involved James Stewart and Audie Murphy. Another Society property, the Little Nation Mill in Howardsville, also had a prominent role in the movie.