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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T1O_the-rise-of-the-sinks-historical_Lander-WY.html
The Rise of the Sinks is a large spring where the water of the middle fork of the Popo Agie River reappears after flowing into a limestone cavern called the Sinks, located a quarter of a mile upstream. The water flows underground following an u…
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In 1919 the Sinks Canyon Hydro Electric Company built a power plant in the canyon to provide electricity for Lander. A dam was built upstream of the Sinks. The dam diverted part of the Popo Agie River into a pipeline which carried the water to the…
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"The Sinks" are a series of cracks and crevices at the back of the cavern before you. The water of the Popo Agie River flows into the Sinks. It then reappears at the "Rise of the Sinks," a large calm pool ΒΌ mile down canyon. (…
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The heavily timbered slope before you provides excellent habitat for many species of wildlife. Douglas Fir trees with Oregon Grape, Mountain Lover, Snowberry, Wild Rose and many other shrubs in the under story, cover the slope. Vegetation is thick…
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Continental Divide at South Pass 35 miles West
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The Sweetwater Valley is the mid-section of the 2000 mile-long Oregon Trail. West of Casper, Wyoming, branches of that trail, meld into a single transportation corridor and here, paralleling the serpentine Sweetwater River, the trail approaches th…
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In Memoriam Dr. Barr, Jerome Mason, Harvey Morgan, Killed Here By Indians June 27, 1870
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T0A_lander-vally-historical-sites-historical_Lander-WY.html
Scouts and Trappers visited this area by 1811 and rendezvous were held 1829, 1830, and 1836. Camp Magraw (sic), 1857, site 2.1 miles north. Fort Thompson, 1857-1858, was located 4.4 miles north of here. Camp Augur, 1869-1870, became the or…
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Oregon-Mormon Trail and Sixth Crossing of Sweetwater River Willie Handcart Company rescue site, 21 October 1856 and burial site of John Winford and eight others from that company John Linford Born 28 August 1808 England Died 21 Octob…
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Late in the year of 1856, the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgetts Wagon Companies left Iowa City for their journey westward. Near this spot, these companies crossed the Sweetwater River for the sixth time, thus the name …
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