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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UKF_later-years-of-operation-historical_Aladdin-WY.html
By 1911 the industrial production of coal at the Aladdin Mine was dwindling. Later coal mining at the site was for domestic coal for heating and cooking. The coal was reportedly "a good coal which burned so hot it made the stove top rattle." The c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UKE_tipple-stabilazation-sic-historical_Aladdin-WY.html
The tilt of the tipple shown in the photos was the result of time and the elements. The degree of tilt and the fact that this structure did not completely collapse is remarkable. The corrosive nature of the coal slack waste piles caused the buried…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UKD_tipple-operation-historical_Aladdin-WY.html
The structure before you is one of the last historic wooden coal tipples left in the west. The wooden tipple structure is an example of mine engineering technology used in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This type of structure is no longer used …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UJ7_devils-tower-the-first-national-monument-historical_Devils-Tower-WY.html
President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower a national monument on September 24, 1906. President Roosevelt acted under the authority of of the Antiquities Act of 1906 which declared, "that the President of the United States is hereby au…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UIU_friends-family-and-fun-historical_Devils-Tower-WY.html
Music! Dancing! Baseball! Food! Drink! Friends! Relatives! All this and more took place at the Old Settler's Picnic. Pioneer gatherings at the Tower, usually on the 4th of July, started in the 1890s. These events drew hundreds for the biggest loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UIS_texas-trail-historical_Moorcroft-WY.html
Along this trail passed herds of cattle from distant Texas to replace the fast vanishing buffalo and build a civilization on the north-western plains.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UIR_lifeline-historical_Moorcroft-WY.html
The arid basins and prairies of Wyoming lie in the rain shadow of our great mountain ranges. The shortgrass prairie of eastern Wyoming and Colorado are also that is left of this native grassland type. Buffalo grass and drama grasses typify the sho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UIP_devils-tower-historical_Devils-Tower-WY.html
Although Devils Tower has long been a prominent landmark in northeastern Wyoming. the origin of the mammoth rock obelisk remains somewhat obscure. Geologists agree that Devils Tower consist of molten rock forced upward from deep within the earth. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DLZ_how-did-the-tower-form_Devils-Tower-WY.html
The process began about 50 million years ago. Magma (molten rock) was injected into layers of sedimentary rock, forming the Tower one and one-half miles below the earth's surface. It has since taken millions of years to erode away the surrounding …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DLY_buried-tower_Devils-Tower-WY.html
Ancient rivers took millions of years to excavate Devils Tower. The waters carried away softer sedimentary rocks leaving behind the hard igneous rock called phonolite. This rock type is found here in northeastern Wyoming, and central Montana, but …
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