The sign reads "Community Hall, Restored 1976, Gillette FFA".
There are a fair number of these.
Little halls for isolated rural communities. Communities that were really too far from town to go to town's regularly. Even as late as the 1970s, when this one was restored, I can recall one in northern rural Carbon County that received a fair amount of use.
Now, I'd guess none of them do
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There used to be one-room schoolhouses that looked like that building every three miles right after the Land Run. After they stopped being used for schools some of them were turned into meeting halls, I can even remember going to one near the farm with my grandparents when I was a little kid for some sort of local community gathering.
Most of them are gone now, once the roofs stopped being maintained they fell down pretty quick.
Interestingly, at one time there was a school on part of the farm. When it was closed down, the building was sold and moved, and all that's left is the school foundations, a cellar, and the foundations of outhouses and coal shed. Every time I stand on the concrete slab that was the entry, I find it hard to imagine a bunch of kids going to school there.
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