Cadoma Foundation

About

The Cadoma Foundation is a Wyoming 501c (3) for the preservation of Wyoming historic properties. The foundation owns the Historic Bishop Home Casper, Wy

Story

Historic Bishop Home. Built in 1907, the Historic Bishop Home located at 818 East 2nd Street was the first multi-story brick home in Casper; the only house museum open to the public; and, Casper’s only home individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places Frequently, the visitors remark that the Bishop Home IS true history of Casper and Natrona County. After a visit, the home is no longer an old house on 2nd Street to them; but, a connection to the development of Casper and Natrona County as the business center of central Wyoming. This stalwart house has stood through Casper’s strange and wondrous past and will stand during the events of Casper’s future. The permanence of this “Place” gives the community pride in the past and confidence about “their” future.
Mission Statement: The Bishop Home Family Museum connects the young and old to the history of Casper, Natrona County, & Wyoming through a "real family" who lived, laughed, and labored in this historic home for over 100 years.
For more information on both the Cadoma Foundation and the Historic Bishop Home, please visit our website www.cadomafoundation.org

Mission

The Cadoma Foundation’s purpose is to ensure historic places are preserved in perpetuity by fostering a strong ethic supporting stewardship of historic places and acquiring, maintaining, restoring, and preserving historic buildings in the State of Wyoming.

Products

Casper Chronicle (purchase at www.cadomafoundation.org/products.html)

The Cadoma Foundation has published the Casper Chronicles written by members of the Casper Zonta Club, a service club for women in the days when only men were permitted membership in Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs.

The Casper Chronicles is a Ken Burn’s style of history telling. The writings display an immediacy only personal remembrances can provide. The tales bring to life the early times of Casper and relive the struggles and commitment that brought the land from sage brush prairie to a thriving metropolis in the middle of Wyoming. These first and second hand accounts of the building of Casper, relating the struggles and perseverance of the community fathers are important perspectives to remember. The majority of the memories are dated from the late 1880’s to 1910’s. Except for the dedication of the women of the Zonta Club to compile and publish the Chronicles, these tales would have been lost forever.

The book was first published in 1964 for the 75th anniversary of the founding of Casper; Casper’s Diamond Jubilee Anniversary. The book out-lasted the Casper Zonta Club which gave up its charter in the early 1990’s. Twelve members of the Zonta Group were the authors. These women reported either their own experiences or the experiences of their parents during the founding and building of early Casper. One of the women was a newspaper reporter, another sister of an historian, another maker of the first official state flag, and another a longtime state legislator. All the women were active community members who told the facts as they remembered them.

In this publication, for the first time, the book has a complete Index and Table of Contents that makes the information more accessible for historical research. These additions bring new life to this book and spark community interest in the cultural heritage of Casper and its surrounding area.

The book is in the authors’ own words, style, grammar, and punctuation to preserve its historical and colloquial significance. Only minor changes for significant typographical errors were made.

The Cadoma Foundation is committed to preserving tales and memories of the generations that followed. Sequels to the Chronicles are planned that will share stories of subsequent generations that saw Casper “roar” in the 1920’s, bust in the ‘30’s and rise again. If you have personal and family stories that should become a part of these publications, please contact us.

The Casper Chronicles may be purchased for $20.00 from Windy City Books, Ralph’s Book Store in Casper or directly from the Cadoma Foundation on its website www.cadomafoundation.org

The Cadoma Foundation
1515 Westridge Way
Casper, Wyoming 82604
www.cadomafoundation.org
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