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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PBJ_women-at-the-trading-post_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
This archaeological excavation has helped to document the prominent roll Native American women played in the day-to-dat activities of the trading post. They traded with travelers, provided food for guests, and at times, actually ran the post. Ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PBI_mormon-occupation_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
The neat row of mortared cobblestones (#1) is a remnant of the west wall of the Mormon fort, which was completed in late summer of 1857. It is the largest and most impressive feature uncovered in recent excavations at Fort Bridger. The lighter col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAF_infantry-barracks-museum_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
Completed in 1887, this building served as an infantry barracks, or housing for infantry troops stationed here. With an interior of wooden floors and plastered walls, it was a vast improvement over the rude log barracks in use since 1858. Shaped l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAE_digging-up-the-past_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
Beginning as a Wyoming Centennial project in 1990, archaeologists from Western Wyoming College have been working to uncover the physical remains of 19th century life at Fort Bridger. As the fort evolved over time, from an emigrant supply station, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAD_post-commissary_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
The post commissary, erected in 1867, measured 28' x 100' and was built of cut stone quarried about two miles west of the fort. A portion of the old cobblerock Mormon Wall was utilized to form a section of the building's north wall. The commissa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAC_old-guardhouse_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
Built in 1868 of quarried limestone slabs, this guardhouse was a replacement for the not-so-secure log guardhouse that stood fifty yards north of here. With walls 2' thick, the exterior dimensions were 24' x 58'. The height of the roof went from 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAB_the-road-to-zion_Fort-Bridger-WY.html
From the late 1840s through the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 Mormons passed by here on their way to their "New Zion" in Utah. Starting from Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846, the first group of at least 13,000 Mormons crossed into Iowa to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7U_hilliard-wyoming_Evanston-WY.html
The first settler in the Hilliard area was John Myers who arrived in the middle to late 1850s. He worked at Fort Bridger in 1857, and in 1860 made his home on the Bear River where the Salt Lake Trail (California/Mormon Trail) crossed the river, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7T_hilliard-city-and-piedmont_Evanston-WY.html
Several plaques are located at this kiosk Hilliard City and Piedmont Early settlers began to arrive on "Hilliard Flats" in 1860 to ranch and grow crops. Long, cold winters and short growing seasons made it difficult to survive, but s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7S_charcoal-kilns_WY.html
were built by Moses Byrne, 1869, to supply the pioneer smelters in the Utah Valley.
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