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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPY_texas-trail-1866-to-1897-historical_Upton-WY.html
Following the Civil War, construction of the transcontinental Railroad opened the west, ensuring elimination of the buffalo herds, forcing Native American Indians onto reservations where the military provided food. The rails transported range fatt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPX_pine-paradise-historical_Upton-WY.html
You are amidst a stand of ponderosa pines. These majestic trees which can reach heights of 180 feet provided a variety of habitats for wildlife.
Porcupines, pygmy nuthatches, red squirrels and mule deer inhabit ponderosa pine forested. Porcupine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPW_texas-trail-1866-1897-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
Following the Civil War, construction of the transcontinental Railroad opened the West, ensuring elimination of vast buffalo herds and forcing Native American Indians onto reservations where the military provided food.
Leggy Texas Longhorns wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPS_the-osage-oilfield-historical_Osage-WY.html
The Osage Oilfield was the first large producing oil field in Weston County. The first oil well drilled here and put into commercial production was the discovery well drilled by the Sinclair Oil Company in 1919. It was immediately sold to Alliance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP9_accidental-oil-well-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
In February of 1966, Al Smith of Newcastle made history by successfully completing the world's only producing hand dug oil well. Using a pick and shovel, he dug twenty-one feet into the oil-bering Newcastle Formation. When he encountered the harde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP7_the-jenny-stockade-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
One-half mile east of this spot was a supply depot for army units convoying the Professor W.P. Jenny Party, which in 1875, surveyed mineral and other resources of the Black Hills for the United States. By 1876 it was a station the Cheyenne-Deadwoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP0_hanging-of-diamond-l-slim-clifton-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
William C. Clifton worked as a cowpuncher on the Diamond L Ranch. where he acquired the nickname "Diamond L Slim." On March 15, 1903, he shot and killed John W. and Luella Foster Church in the Churches' homestead cabin on Porcupine Creek. Slim was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UOZ_the-trains-power-newcastle-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
Newcastle Becomes a Center
Development of northeastern Wyoming came quickly on the heels of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, or the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe as it is known today. The Burlington's Grand Island and Northern Wyo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UOY_cambria-powers-the-trains-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
Coal Determines the Route
The 1888 discovery of coal at Cambria, eight miles north of Newcastle, provided the final key to railroad development through the northeast Wyoming Territory. The main line of the railroad stretched west from Newcastle,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UNA_cambria-salt-mine-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
A group of Euro-Americans discovered salt springs in July, 1877 near the future town sites of Newcastle and Cambria. In November of 1878, James LeGraves started mining the salt and shipping it to the Black Hills gold mines. LeGraves erected a furn…