Wyoming storage shed turns out to be 140-year-old Chinese laundry

A weathered cabin that spent decades being used as a storage shed behind a building on Main Street in Lander, Wyoming, has been identified as a late 19th-century Chinese laundry and bathhouse. The building belonged to Sam Sing, one of Lander’s early and influential residents.The small log cabin was donated to the Fremont County Pioneer Museum about eight years ago by property owner Tony McRae. The donation began a long effort to raise money, move the structure and preserve it. The building has now been moved to the museum’s Pioneer Village, where it will be restored and turned into an exhibit.Sing was among about 30 Chinese residents living in the town, which had a population of around 1,000 at the time.