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The Lobby Fireplace - Yellowstone Lodge  
   

The Lobby Fireplace - Yellowstone Lodge

The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake moved this fireplace 3 feet to the right of it's foundation. It has been rebuilt and the foundation replaced in it's original location with more stablized earthquake proof rebar to prevent movement in the event of another earthquake of this magnitude. Yellowstone has some 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes per year . Only a few of them are strong enough to be felt.
Yellowstone National Park

June 7th 2007
We went to Yellowstone National Park to see the Yellowstone Lodge where Bill's mother Ruth Maxey used to work when she was 19 years old back in 1929. She won a drawing in her home town of Western Springs , Illinois for 4 young high school graduates to travel by train to Gardiner, Montana and to be picked up there and transported into Yellowstone National Park. While she was there working in the l ... read more
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