Heritage House:

Located in the downtown area, this museum preserves Long Pine’s heritage. The residence was built in 1895 by dentist Henry W. Learn.  By 1919 the home was used as a rooming house known as the Miller Hotel. 

The importance of this building is directly tied to the significance of Long Pine as a prominent railroad town from the 1880's until 1992 when the last train come through town.  The Miller Hotel always served the railroad workers and they were its main customers for over 50 years.  It provided very simple and inexpensive rooms for working men.  Of the five hotels that once stood in Long Pine, it is the only one left standing and in fact was used for boarders until 1984.  The architecture of the building is very plain. Its function of providing plain rooms for tired, hungry and not so clean laborers fit its design very well.

Long Pine's Heritage Society formed to preserve the rooming house and  purchased the building in 1985.  Local history exhibits and a genealogy center now occupy the home. One room is devoted to a diorama of Long Pine’s railroad heyday in the 1930’s. Open Fridays and Saturdays, Memorial Day through Labor Day, 1-4 p.m.

Railroad:

The railroad came to Long Pine in 1881. Long Pine was a major railroad hub, home to a "roundhouse" , or large turntable, where engines were serviced. Passenger and freight trains came over the rails.  The last train came through in 1992.

The first railroad bridge was over Pine Creek by Seven Springs, where the trains took on water.  This bridge burned in 1905, and the railroad bridge that now stands was built the same year. Today hikers and bikers cross Pine Creek over this bridge as part of the Cowboy Trail. At 115 feet high, the view from this bridge is worth the hike.

A 12-bedroom Crew Dormitory, or Bunkhouse, was constructed in 1971 near the train depot.  A second depot was built in 1909.  The depot that now stands was constructed in 1965.  This was the last agency between Norfolk and Chadron.  Today, the City of Long Pine offers lodging at the Bunkhouse. The depot is slated to become Long Pine's Railroad Museum.