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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOH_buffalo-bill-dam_Cody-WY.html
Welcome to the
Buffalo Bill
Dam
& Visitor Center
Cody, Wyoming
Tallest Dam in the World in 1910
Built 1905 - 1910
Modified 1985 - 1993
National Register of Historic Places 1973
Civil Engineering Landmark 1973
Free Admision
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOG_buffalo-bill-reservoir_Cody-WY.html
Buffalo Bill Reservoir
The Shoshone Project Story
The development by the U.S. Reclamation Service of the great irrigation project in the lower Shoshone valley required sacrifice of their land by the settlers living in the upper part of the valle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOF_upstream-cableway-winch_Cody-WY.html
Upstream Cableway Winch
This cableway winch, which was used to install and remove the ball plugs, trash racks, and the bulkhead gate for the left abutment outlet works, dates to the construction of the Shoshone Powerplant in 1922. It was oriigina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOE_balanced-plunger-hydraulic-valve_Cody-WY.html
Balanced Plunger Hydraulic Valve
This 48-inch diameter valve is one of two which were originally installed at the base of the Buffalo Bill Dam in 1922 to supply water to the Shoshone Powerplant and low level river outlet works. The two valves wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOD_ball-plug_Cody-WY.html
Ball Plug
This large wood and concrete ball plug was one of two used to halt the flow of water through the 42-inch diameter power outlet works conduits, located in the base of the dam. The balls facilitated the repair and maintenance of downstrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PP1_corbetts-shebang-at-sinking-water-crossing_Cody-WY.html
On September 10th 1880, Victor Arland and John F. Corbett set up the first mercantile establishment in the Big Horn Basin on the Indian Trace that follows Trail Creek. Looking to the cattlemen for business, they moved to Cottonwood Creek in 1883, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1POZ_eagles-nest-stage-station_Cody-WY.html
In the early 1890s, Thomas Lanchbury was hired by the Bell stage and freight line to build a stage station near Eagle's Nest Springs in Wyoming. The Eagle's Nest Stage Station was the midway point on the run between Red Lodge, Montana and Meeteese…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN5_phillip-h-vetter_Cody-WY.html
Phillip Henry Vetter was born February 7, 1855 near Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia. He was killed by a grizzly bear on the Greybull River in Wyoming in 1892.
A few years after the Civil War, Phillip's family came West by wagon train an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN4_w-a-gallagher-and-blind-bill_Cody-WY.html
William Gallagher and his friend, Blind Bill, were killed on Meeteese Creek below the old town of Arland in mid-March of 1894. Both men, about thirty, were born during the Civil War period.
Gallagher, who was somewhat of an outlaw, was tall, l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN3_belle-drewry_Cody-WY.html
Belle Drewry was born in 1867, just two years after the Civil War. Her birth place and family are unknown. It is known that she left home at an early age and changed her name. Belle was a rather attractive young woman; about five foot six inches a…