Preservation: Wyatt Earp's House
Categories: Preservation: You Can Help
By: TW Editors 09/01/2007
No School Today
In 1900, residents of rural Weston County, Wyoming, built a small school. Although abandoned by the 1980s, the schoolhouse was in good shape.
Until June. That’s when owner Brad Plaga bulldozed the Sweet School, on his property outside Newcastle, to make way for a retirement home.
Local preservationists are furious. They received a $3,500 grant in May and were waiting to hear about a $30,000 grant, which would have helped pay for moving the school and turning it into a museum. Lucille Dumbrill of the Weston County Historic Preservation Board says Plaga set a deadline of September to get the school off his land. Plaga denies that and says that plans to save the building hadn’t gone anywhere since 2005 and he had made it clear he wasn’t going to wait forever. 307-746-2268
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