Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
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The 2000-pound Civic Center bell--moved four times
To the right of the entrance to the Laramie Plains Civic Center’s Gryphon Theater, there is a large bronze bell. It has two inscriptions. The first denotes the year that the bell came to Laramie, “Laramie High School August 1900.” The second appears to indicate when the bell was placed on a low concrete pedestal at the northeast corner of the Center before being moved inside, “Placed Senior Distinction Day Class of 1951.” But what connects the two?