Carrier updates sustainability strategy to focus on carbon, circularity, and collaboration
08.11.2023 - 16:41 / forbes.com
As revivals of quintessential Old West towns go, that of Deadwoood, South Dakota has been as robust as they get, with the Black Hills star buzzing with activity today. Some of what attracts 2.5 million visitors a year surely comes through the recent popularity of a period TV series, but the important key is that city leaders several decades ago decided to rescue a rich architectural heritage from decline.
With the newly-renovated Deadwood Mountain Grand casino hotel as your base (see recent post here), the whole town lies just minutes away. And whether you enjoy Deadwood’s copious casino offerings or not, it’s the revenue from the gaming industry that you can largely thank for preserving one of the finest collections of buildings in the West, and for which the city’s Historic Preservation Office wouldn’t have the funds to protect its National Historic Landmark District.
To discover any small town, starting small is the logical way to go. Look out for the well-designed and super informative historic plaques placed all around town. Just across the street from the Deadwood Mountain Grand, you have to look closely to realize that Deadwood’s handsome old brick Railroad Depot is now a visitors center with some fine little exhibitions on the role of trains in the mining industry and on the growth of the town. Don’t miss the case that holds copies of early-20th-century canned goods with their gorgeous colorful labels of peas and tomatoes and cherries and pears that put our contemporary designs to shame.
Founded in 1930 just next to the depot, the three-story Adams Museum owes its existence to W.E. Adams whose influence as businessman and mayor on early Deadwood was actually far greater than all those colorful legends—we’re talking about you, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Eclecticism is the order of the day here, from the 7-troy-ounce gold nugget discovered by a tiny bearded Welsh-born character whom they called Potato Creek Johnny to the five-ton locomotive from mining days that had to be brought in by taking out a wall. The basement displays the skeleton of a rare marine reptile called a plesiosaur found nearby in the 1930s. Among some truly curious small historic figurines upstairs behind glass, 96 wooden women and one man were carved by a local in the 1930s and depicted at a nudist colony.
In the part of town called the Presidential District for its historically finer homes, the gorgeous Queen Anne-style Adams House is surely among the most superbly preserved late 19th-century homes you’ll ever find. Modern for its day with indoor plumbing, electricity, and a telephone, it was built by the founder of the city’s early premier Franklin Hotel, and bought not long after by Adams. Upon his death, his much
Carrier updates sustainability strategy to focus on carbon, circularity, and collaboration
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