Meet the Cody Heritage Museum
The Cody Heritage Museum focuses on local Cody history — and accepts family contributions of artifacts and objects that fit the areas of focus for the museum. Get in touch if you can contribute our growing collection.
Articles by Cody Heritage Museum
Jessie Hitchcock: Park County Superintendent of Schools, 1910
Death of a Young Mother The end of March 1887 was a terrible week for a young family in Crete, Nebraska. Their mother, Ester, first became slightly ill, but her condition worsened as the week ...
Evelyn Braten: Fire Lookout, Homesteader, and Sunlight Basin Pioneer
Evelyn Braten once worked as a fire lookout atop Windy Mountain in the Sunlight Basin. Today the lookout structure is gone but the pilings and the spectacular views remain. Evelyn Braten (1911–1999) was born on ...
70 Years in Cody: The Life and Times of Martha Marston Newton
Martha Marston lived in Cody for nearly seventy years, but her early roots were on the seafaring coast of Maine. She was born in 1885 to George Gilbert Marston and Hattie Patrick, during Maine’s heyday ...
Two Heritage Museum Volunteers Have Ties to Demaris Springs
In a museum, sometimes the people behind the front desk are a wealth of information, even more so than the exhibits themselves. Here at the Cody Heritage Museum, two of our regular volunteers, Terry Bartlett ...
On Foot Along the Old Meeteetse Trail
Today, travelers can drive from Cody to Meeteetse in just thirty minutes via the paved Meeteetse Highway (WYO 120). But 140 years ago, that same journey could take two days. In the 1880s, a rugged ...
Cody’s Place in the Nationwide Soda Water Trend
Just up the North Fork past Wapiti, the historic Sweetwater Spring still gurgles and babbles over moss-covered rocks, just as it has for millennia. In the late 1920s, local resident Edgar D. “Kid” Wilson capitalized ...
Development of the North Fork Highway
Over 120 years ago, local families and visitors looked forward to summer trips to Yellowstone, just as we do today. But back then, the North Fork Highway did not yet exist. In the year 1901, ...
The Mystique of Cedar Mountain
On a recent trail run on Cedar Mountain, local endurance runner Jeff Rode came face to face with a full-sized mountain lion. “It kinda spooked me,” Rode said. “I’d just finished my break in my ...
Walking Through Time at the Cody Heritage Museum
The red brick building at the corner of Sheridan and 11th is a special place. The Cody Heritage Museum is located in the DeMaris House, a historic building that has been part of Cody’s downtown ...
Old Family Stories Make History Come Alive
Banner Photo: The original 1898 Nordquist homestead with pre-existing cabins before the house was built. Do you have roots in Cody and old family stories that are passed from one generation to the next? Or, ...
John Colter’s Time in the Bighorn Basin
It was at this exact time of year, fall in northwest Wyoming, when John Colter set out alone and on foot from a fur trading post east of today’s Billings. Between the fall of 1807 ...
The Founding of the Cody Heritage Museum
The sturdy red brick house on the corner of Sheridan Avenue and 11th has evolved over its 117-year history, but now houses Cody’s first museum dedicated to local, Cody-area history. Longtime locals who enter the ...