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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OPQ_railroad-and-river_Sinclair-WY.html
The Union Pacific Railroad and the North Platte River are important parts of the story of Fort Fred Steele. Located where these two great resources met, the fort and the local industries surrounding it would depend upon the rails and water for sup…
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/HM1OO0_overland-trail_WY.html
"From the Platte west to Fort Bridger... is one almost uninterrupted panorama of barren hills, sandy plains, ugly tortuous ravines, and blank desolation... All life and all living things, seem to be gone." (Overland Trail traveler Demas Barnes, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONZ_the-overland-stage-station-route_WY.html
Operated 1862 to 1868 Washakee Station four miles east. Barrel Springs Station fourteen miles west.
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/HM1ONR_wyoming-state-penitentiary_Rawlins-WY.html
The Wyoming State Penitentiary was constructed in different stages. The first construction occurred three years after statehood in 1893 following authorization by the Wyoming Territorial Legislature and the laying of a cornerstone in 1888. The ori…
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/HM1ONL_owen-wister_Medicine-Bow-WY.html
"When you say that, smile" Owen Wister Whose writings acquainted the nation with pioneer Wyoming ranch life, made Medicine Bow the beginning of his most popular novel, "The Virginian,"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONK_william-daley-flagpole_Rawlins-WY.html
The pioneer William Daley (1844-1922) built both the original 1866 Fort Phil Kearney flagstaff for the Bozeman Trail fort and this replica which is placed here in memory of the Daley Family in 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ONJ_rawlings_Rawlins-WY.html
In the summer of 1867, a survey partly led by General Grenville M. Dodge seeking a route for the Union Pacific Railroad, stopped one half mile south west of here. General John A. Rawlins, a member of the party, spoke of the spring there as the m…
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