A lonely 2-track road that leads to PHC-REC’s AML 17F, Historic Kirwin Project.  The project involves the stabilization, rehabilitation, and preservation of historic structures to the standards set forth by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.  The project is located in the historic mining town of Kirwin, Wyoming.

 Gold was discovered at Kirwin in 1885. Kirwin is situated on a mountain side at 9,000 feet in elevation. By 1894, the Shoshone River Mining Company had been formed. The first ore had been shipped out of Kirwin in 1897. By this time, Kirwin had a population of 200 people. It had 38 buildings, including boarding houses, sawmill, hotel, stores, post office, and many houses.  It had no brothels, saloons, or cemetery.

 In 1907, over an 8-day period, a snowstorm blasted Kirwin with 50 to 100 feet of snow. An avalanche swept down the mountain and killed three people. The townspeople had to wait for the weather to clear so they could remove the snow from the roads and notify the people below in Meeteetse of the deaths. The town of Kirwin died shortly thereafter.