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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGX_yellowstone-highway_Cheyenne-WY.html
This Welcome Center's entrance axis aligns with and pays tribute to the Yellowstone and National Park-to-Park highways. The Yellowstone Highway was an unpaved "auto trail" established in 1915 that was mapped, maintained, and promoted by local busi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGW_trails-tales-of-i-25_Cheyenne-WY.html
Interstate 25 serves as a primary north-south corridor for the western states. Skirting the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, it stretches 1,059 miles from southern New Mexico to northern Wyoming. A vital junction with east-west interstates, it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGV_magic-city-of-the-plains_Cheyenne-WY.html
Cheyenne was founded in 1867 as a terminal for the Union Pacific's transcontinental railway through southern Wyoming. The city grew bigger and faster than most rail towns, in part due to nearby U.S. Army Fort D.A. Russell, established in 1867, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFI_pole-creek-ranch_Cheyenne-WY.html
was first regular
stop of the Cheyenne
and Black Hills stage
18 miles from Cheyenne
a "hotel" was built in
1876
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFH_camp-carlin_Cheyenne-WY.html
Camp Carlin or Cheyenne Depot, 1867-1890, was 2nd largest quartermaster depot in the United States. In Wyoming it supplied Forts Russell, Sanders, Steele, Bridger, Washakie, Fetterman, Laramie, McKinney and Phil Kearny; in Nebraska, Forts Sidney, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFG_the-gangplank_Cheyenne-WY.html
The granite rocks to the west are more than a billion years old (Pre-Cambrian in age). The sedimentary rocks to the east are some 10 million years old (Late Miocene in age). After the mountains were elevated, some 20,000 feet of rocks were eroded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QEW_little-bear-stage-station_Cheyenne-WY.html
Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1867-1887, started from Camp Carlin and Ft. D.A. Russell on the west edge of Cheyenne.
This road first ran to Ft. Laramie and in 1876 was extended to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, and the Black Hills gold fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ADE_cheyenne-corner-stone_Cheyenne-WY.html
S.W. corner of site chosen by General Grenville Dodge in 1867 for the division point of the U.P.R.R. and for the location of Cheyenne City. The original 4 sq miles were laid at an angle to give "all houses maximum sunshine throughout the year." Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVRI_wyoming-army-and-air-national-guard-memorial_Cheyenne-WY.html
Eternal gratitude to themen and women who haveserved and sacrificed in theWyomingArmy and Air National Guard
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVRH_wyoming-spanish-american-war-monument_Cheyenne-WY.html
Erected to the Memory ofThe heroes of the SpanishAmerican WarbyThe State of WyomingandThe Ladies Volunteer AidSociety Second RegimentU.S, Vol. CavalryFirst Battalion,Wyoming VolunteersBattery AWyoming Volunteers