324 East 1st St - PO Box 54
Powell, WY 82435
(307) 754-9481
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation's Interpretive Center strives to preserve and share the story of a place where nearly 14,000 people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated over the course of World War II. Come visit us to learn more about this period of American history through the collection of artifacts in our permanent exhibit and our walking tour of the site.
The Powell Main Post Office in Powell, Wyoming was built in 1937 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Powell was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.The post office contains the mural, Powell's Agriculture Resulting from the Shoshine Irrigation Project by Verona Burkhard, painted in 1938 and funded by the Section of Painting and Sculpture.