"Laws, California." Laws by dutch_anna

Laws Travel Guide: 2 reviews and 6 photos

A very small village, but with a great museum!

We stayed on the campground at Bishop, on the Highway 395, east of the Sierra Nevada. A nice trip is a visit to the village Laws, so very small, that I hardly remember it. But it had a very interesting and nice attraction: the open-air museum. Laws Railroad Museum & Historical Site.
In the middle, on a lawn, an old train, well, THE old train, that used to run here. We see the old station. This is the old Laws, as it was between 1880 and 1960.

So much to see here!

Museum, Laws. Old houses.

Around the grass field are buildings, some are real old, some are rebuilt. All can be seen inside. A farmers house, the village school, the dentist and the doctor's surgery, the optician, barber's shop, the general store. In an old church, that was a Catholic church in Bishop til there a new one was built, is a library with old books, most about California. Novels and non-fiction. Also a collection of old bottles, pottery and old tools. An old miner's house, an other house, that much later was built for a movie.
Oh, so much to see!

The "Wells Fargo building"

This house has a sign: "Wells Fargo & Co".

website of the museum

and a list of all the exhibits

Intro Updated Oct 22, 2003
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Visit the old houses, so conscientious refurnished, and stay for awhile in the world of 1900. I think, that also not too... more travel advice

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We stayed on the campground at Bishop, on the Highway 395, east of the Sierra Nevada. A nice trip is a visit to the... more travel advice

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Written Oct 22, 2003

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And so quiet in October!

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truus_s Mar 29, 2004 at 10:31 AM

Looks me great!!
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was_the_beav Nov 14, 2003 at 12:25 PM

You make even a quiet little open-air museum sound like a lovely summer afternoon. Thank you.
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craic Aug 31, 2003 at 10:05 AM

Just my sort of place!
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nepalgoods Aug 29, 2003 at 11:23 PM

Interesting museum - nice and quiet place!