Photo of Hartville, Wyoming
(Wyoming) Hartville. Photo of Hartville, Wyoming with a footnote that the one home in the right foreground "my father was building - year 1898".
In the 2020 census Hartville, Platte County, Wyoming had a population of 52 people. However, among those 52 people is the oldest business in the state...Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse & Spirits. The town is also one of the last remnants of the Old Fort Laramie Trading Post.
Hartville was a copper mining town established in 1884. Named after Major
(Brevet Lt. Col.) Verling K. Hart. At one time it had over a dozen saloons, an opera house, gaming halls, coffee houses, school. However by 1887 the copper mining rush had ended and the miners moved on to mine onyx and iron.
Backboard is 10 x 8 inches and the mounted photo is 7 x 5 inches. Expected smudges on backing board but the photo is in vg cond.