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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2993_the-c-h-refinery_Lusk-WY.html
By the standards of the petroleum industry, the C & H Refinery is tiny, but placed in the light of history, that small enterprise illustrates the enormous transformation of the oil business. In the late nineteenth century, a multitude of small oil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URM_oldest-building-in-lusk-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Front from oldest building in Lusk owned by Ellis Johnson. Originally at townsite of Silvercliff 1886. Log part of this building is from Rawhide Butte Stage Station.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URC_george-lathrop-historical_Lusk-WY.html
In Memory of
George Lathrop
Pioneer of the West, Indian fighter, veteran stage driver.
Born at Pottsville, Pa. Dec. 24, 1830
Died at Willow, Wyo. Dec. 24, 1915 Buried here
"A good man whose life was filled with striving events." …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URB_lusk-rest-area-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Although paved highways have existed in the U.S. since the 1920s, rest areas are a more recent feature of highway travel. In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson and First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson promoted a nationwide effort to beautify highways th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URA_breaks-in-the-prairie-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Rawhide Buttes in front of you is an island habitat within the shortgrass prairie. Because the Buttes contain forest habitat, they support different species of wildlife than the surrounding prairie. Elk, deer, turkeys, bobcats and mountain lions a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UR8_mother-featherlegs-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Here lies Mother Featherlegs Shepard. So called, as in her ruffled pantalettes she looked like a feather-legged chicken in a high wind. She was a road house ma'am. An outlaw confederate, she was murdered by "Dangerous Dick Davis The Terrapin" in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UR7_rawhide-buttes-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Rawhide Buttes, visible west of this point, once served as a favorite camping spot for Indians and fur trappers. Several different tales explain the origin of the name. One account holds that this locale served as a departure point from which trap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQY_american-legion-ferdinand-branstetter-post-no-1-historical_Lusk-WY.html
The American Legion, founded at Paris, France in 1919, holds a long and enviable record of service to the nation and to the veterans of the nation's wars. Covering those formative years of rapid growth, Legion records are not always exact, but it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQX_redwood-water-tank-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Redwood Water Tank was built to furnish water for the Fremont, Elkhorn, Missouri Valley Railroad steam engines. This line which was part of the Northwestern Line and later became the Chicago Northwestern Railroad that came to Lusk on July 13, 1886…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQV_cheyenne-deadwood-trail-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Here you stand on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail over which freight wagons and stagecoaches traveled between Cheyenne and the Black Hills gold mining area from 1876 to 1877. One of these stages may be seen in the Lusk museum. The nearby monument is a…