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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OPA_bridge-tenders-house_Sinclair-WY.html
The bridge tender's house was constructed by the Union Pacific Railroad to serve as an employee surveillance point. The bridge tender could respond quickly to locomotive-caused fires and could remove flood debris which might damage the bridge and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONY_the-parco-inn_Sinclair-WY.html
The Parco Inn was built as the architectural highlight of Wyoming's most elegant company town. Frank Kistler, founder of the Producers and Refiners Oil Company (PARCO), hired the Denver-based architectural firm of Fisher and Fisher to design a inn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONQ_civil-war-cannons_Sinclair-WY.html
Two cannons located at opposite ends of a meridian island each bear the same inscription. This cannon of Civil War vintage was for many years an essential part of oil field tank farm equipment. It was used in making holes in a tank of oil w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CX3_viewing-the-fort-grounds_Sinclair-WY.html
Fort Fred Steele was established in 1868 as one of a group of military posts placed along the route of the Trans-Continental Railroad to protect and support the railroad construction. Today, except for the Powder Magazine (south of the Railroad tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ABQ_fort-fred-steele_Sinclair-WY.html
Fort Fred SteeleU.S. Military PostJune 30, 1868toAugust 7, 1886 Marked by theState of Wyoming1914
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ABP_fort-fred-steele_Sinclair-WY.html
? ? ? ? ?The south central portion of Wyoming has long been a travel corridor for prehistoric and historic people. Native American tribes from the Great Basin region to the west crossed this area to hunt buffalo on the eastern plains.? ? ? ? ?From…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ABO_ranching-central_Sinclair-WY.html
? ? ? ? ?You are in Carbon County, an area central to Wyoming's past and present ranching industry. In the 1930s the county was populated by over one million sheep and annually shipped more pounds of wool than any other county in the United States…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ABN_wyoming-a-fortress-for-wildlife_Sinclair-WY.html
? ? ? ? ?It is not happenstance that Wyoming hosts a wealth of our nation's wildlife resource. Early explorers wrote descriptions of the buffalo, "... blackening the plains as far as the eye could see. The pronghorn antelope were as numerous as th…
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