Historical Photos of Churches

With Easter approaching, here are a few church photos from some of our collections.

Log cabin church in the Bighorn Mountains, year unknown.
From the Elsa Spear Byron collection.
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This is how Sheridanites used to roll on Sunday mornings.
From the Cooksley collection.
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First Baptist Church in 1895, with many pioneer families
present: Colliers, Houghtons, Goodnights, Calloways, Simeses,
Evanses, Weltners, and Guyers (the photo was annotated
"Property of E.G. Guyer").
From the Bourne collection.
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First Baptist Church in 1920.
From the Bourne collection.
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Unidentified church after a snowstorm in 1920.
From the Byron collection.
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Mt. Olive (A.M.E.) Church, the first church with a prominently
African American congregation in Sheridan.
From the Cooksley collection.
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First Congregational Church in 1940, located at the corner of
Brooks and Works streets.
From the Diers collection.
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Holy Name Catholic Church in 1940.
From the Diers collection.
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