Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie (HM1MOM)

Location: Guernsey, WY 82214 Platte County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 16.151', W 104° 44.468'

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This sighting device points to the crest of a ridge separating the North Platte and Laramie Rivers. Directly down the opposite slope, on the banks of the Laramie about a mile above the confluence of the streams, stands Fort Laramie. It is about eight miles from here as the crow flies, but twelve miles by road.Founded in 1834 by fur traders William Sublette and Robert Campbell, who named their log structure Fort William, the post was acquired by the American Fur Company in 1841. That company built an adobe-walled complex nearby which they named Fort John, but the mountain men called it Fort Laramie. This latter name stemmed from the river on which it was located and which, on its own turn, got its name from the trapper Jacques LaRamie, who is believed to have trapped and died in the area in the early 1800's.The government purchased Fort Laramie in 1849. In the next forty years it became the most famous military post protecting the Oregon Trail and served as a forward base for many campaigns of the Indian Wars. The fort was deactivated in 1890, the land sold into private ownership and the buildings sold at auction or abandoned and allowed to fall into ruins. In 1937 the State of Wyoming purchased the property - land and building ruins - from private owners and gave it back to the federal government. By presidential proclamation in 1938 Fort Laramie National Historic Site became a unit of the National Park System.
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Date Added Sunday, August 9th, 2015 at 6:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)13T E 521348 N 4679696
Decimal Degrees42.26918333, -104.74113333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 16.151', W 104° 44.468'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 16' 9.06" N, 104° 44' 28.08" W
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Area Code(s)307
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 90 S Wyoming Ave, Guernsey WY 82214, US
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