Saturday, March 21, 2020

Roadside attraction I'd never heard of until now, the Como Bluff Fossil Cabin on the Lincoln highway, in Medicine Bow Wyoming, built in 1932



Though built in 1932, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest building in the world: the walls of the building were built out of 5,796 mortared-together dinosaur bones, dug from nearby areas.

Initially, the building was part of a gasoline filling station along US 30 by Thomas Boylan, who had been collecting bones for 17 years, with the intention of creating sculptures in front of his home and the gas station.


The cabin is widely recognized as the only building constructed of fossilized dinosaur bones in the United States

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/fossil-cabin
https://www.zmescience.com/other/offbeat-other/dinosaur-cabin-wyoming/

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