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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z77_afton-wyoming_Afton-WY.html
World's largest elkhorn arch
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PA8_the-baker-cabin_Etna-WY.html
Oldest surviving house in Star Valley is this two room dwelling built in 1889 by Anna Eliza Baker and her 12 year old daughter May. The logs are hand-hewn on four sides and dovetailed at the corners. It was the first home in this area to have a sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9Z_agriculture-under-the-stars_Thayne-WY.html
Look up a night and you can see why this is called Star Valley. As early as the 1870's, the Mormon Church was placing cattle here to summer graze on the lush meadows. Later, Mormon pioneers dotted the valley with small farms consisting of dairy co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9Y_star-valley_Afton-WY.html
In the spring of 1879 a group of pioneers from Bear Lake settled here. Moses Thatcher explored the area, dedicated it as a home for the Latter Day Saints, calling it Star Valley. Freedom and Auburn settled in 1879 and Afton in 1885. The first publ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9X_mormons-in-star-valley_Afton-WY.html
First Mormons of record in the valley were 40 emigrants, miners from England, employed in 1858 by F.W. Lander to work on the Lander Cut-Off of the Pacific Wagon Road. By 1870 Church cattle were summer pastured in the valley. In 1879 the Church dir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9W_first-post-office_Thayne-WY.html
Thayne, formerly called Glencoe, was founded in 1888, a which time mail was brought into Star Valley by team and wagon and distributed to the people from a log cabin owned by Joseph Thayne. The building was one room 12 X 15 feet with a dirt floor.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9V_the-astorians_Alpine-WY.html
Here in Sept. 1812, the returning Astorians led by Robert Stuart were attacked by the Indians and their horses stolen.
Dedicated July 4, 1939, to commemorate the opening of the Snake River Canyon Road.
Built by Civilian Conservation Corps.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9O_periodic-spring_Smoot-WY.html
Located 4 miles east of Afton in the Salt River Range, is the largest of three natural springs in the world that is naturally turn of and on. Water flow is interrupted from anywhere between 3 to 30 minutes, general between the month of August - Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9N_lander-cut-off_Smoot-WY.html
The Lander Cut-off left the Oregon Trail at Burnt Ranch on the Sweetwater River near South Pass City, WY. Frederick Lander surveyed the trail in 1857. Tens of thousands of people passed over the trail during its use. With the Transcontinental Rail…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9M_lander-cut-off-of-the-oregon-trail_Smoot-WY.html
Beginning in 1843, emigrants traveled across the continent along what became known as the Oregon Trail. Increased traffic during the 1850's resulted in the first government road construction project in the west. The 345 mile Central Division of th…