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Carbon County Chronicler: Richard Thayer is preserving this communities past by researching its school districts
Thomas Hogan, a homesteader from Minnesota came west in the late 1800s and chose a plot of ground in Carbon County, Montana to claim, farm, and settle with his family. A man of some means, Hogan set about ensuring that his three children would not live an uneducated life. Around 1887, he built a small log building and brought a teacher, Margaret Gardiner, from back east so his children could start school. This school became known as the Hogan School, the first school in Carbon County
