![LOOK: The Chugwater Mercantile Total Transformation Is Astounding](https://townsquare.media/site/961/files/2024/03/attachment-Tri-County-Mercantile-Chugwater-Snow.jpg?w=980&q=75)
LOOK: The Chugwater Mercantile Total Transformation Is Astounding
There was not much left of old Chugwater, Wyoming.
The interstate ran people by it in an 80-mile-an-hour rush.
The train stopped dropping off travellers.
Chugwater's tiny downtown was closed up, save for the soda fountain.
The old Mercantile was just an empty building that appeared to only have a couple of years left in it.
Then a new generation got busy and made it worth pulling off the highway to see how Wyoming used to look, just a few generations ago.
Chugwater's Tri-County-Mercantile has had another inside facelift, bringing back what old town stores used to be all about.
Back then, a local store was about more than just picking up groceries.
Historic Wyoming Store Restored
Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods
THE HISTORY & REBIRTH OF CHUGWATER WYOMING
Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods
Reading The Past - Chugwater Wyoming Newspaper
These pages of the old Chugwter Wyoming newspaper show us coverage of the region from back in the 1940s.
There was little local news, other than the war.
But what was published at the time was important to the people of the area.
It was, in most case, the only news they had from outside their little ranch or town.
Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods
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