Built in 1883 as the now-defunct town's general store and post office, it was surrounded by the town's saloon and hotel. It is the only structure remaining of what was once a small town serving nearby ranchers.

In its heyday, the town never did amount to much, population maybe a dozen; now it's simply a name on a map with a small cluster of rancher's homes about a mile from the church. It now has the status of "unincorporated community" with the zipcode of the county seat some 15 miles away.

The building was converted to a Catholic church in 1961 after the ruined shell was donated to and renovated by the Catholic Church. Services are still occasionally held here; one Sunday a month or less.

Not far east of Rawlins, WY is the town - so to speak - of Sinclair. In 1922, the Producers and Refiners Corporation selected this location for a refinery; it started operation in 1923. The company bought the land surrounding the refinery as a location for its employees. The resulting planned community was considered one of the most modern at the time. Mail arrived at the refinery addressed to "P&R Co" which led to the town to be named Parco.

Sinclair bought P&R Co and renamed the town in 1943. The town never had more than a few hundred inhabitants - latest census puts the population at around 350 - but the original refinery is still active and most of the original town structures remain as part of a historic district. However, most commercial activity occurs in Rawlins - only about 7 miles west.

Funny thing: there's a Sinclair gas station at the east exit off I-80 leading into town. It is not cheap.

A few miles east of town is the location of the Hell-On-Wheels town of Benton. For three months during the summer of 1868, Benton was notorious as the most devilish of the hell-on-wheels towns that existed during the construction of the Union Pacific portion of the Transcontinental Railroad ("transcontinental" being Omaha to Sacramento). Nothing remains of Benton.

If you had only paid more taxes to "Save The Planet"™

The Krasheninnikov volcano, located on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, sent ash 6 kilometers, or 3.7 miles, into the sky. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake accompanied the eruption. The plume is spreading eastward from the volcano toward the Pacific Ocean. This is the first historically confirmed eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano in 600 years. It has been said that the amount of ash blown into the sky is the equivalent to the exhaust of a large diesel pickup.

"moderate explosive activity could continue" so quick - send those Climate Change tax dollars to your favorite politician so that the Congress-critter can prevent this from happening again.

There is no one so slow as the guy in front of you doing 2 mph less than you want to go.