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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM298M_empire-wyoming-african-american-community-building-in-the-west_Torrington-WY.html
In the 1870s, thousands of African Americans fled the poverty and racial unrest that followed the American Civil War to homestead on the plains of Kansas. These migrants were known as the Exodusters. Some intended to create separate, self-sufficie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1US9_oregon-trail-historical_Torrington-WY.html
To all the pioneers
who passed this way
to win and hold
the West
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1US8_oregon-trail-historical_Torrington-WY.html
Marked by the
State of Wyoming
1914
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IGC_the-oregon-trail_Torrington-WY.html
Entered Wyoming
at this point
1841
Main trail 3 miles South
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IGA_cold-springs_Torrington-WY.html
3/4 mile east from this point
Cold Springs was a popular camping ground on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Utah and other points in the far west. It was a stage station along the Overland Stage Route 1854-1862 and also a Pony Expres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IG9_stuarts-1812-13-astorian-party-campsite_Torrington-WY.html
Following the Lewis and Clark Expedition, much of the interior of the western United States remained a mystery and most people traveling to the west coast went by ship. By 1811, at the height of the fur trade, John Jacob Astor, owner of the Pacifi…