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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q40_site-of-fort-casper_Casper-WY.html
U.S. Military Post
On the Oregon
Trail
Established 1858
Rebuilt 1865
Enlarged 1866
Troops Withdrawn 1867
Burned by Indians 1867
Restored by City of Casper
1936
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3T_the-armory_Casper-WY.html
Casper's unique National Guard Armory was built here in 1930 to house the Headquarters Troop of the 115th Cavalry Regiment. The indoor field provided room for training both horses and men, and even hosted the occasional polo match until the regime…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3S_old-fort-caspar_Casper-WY.html
Originally known to trappers and explorers (1830-1847) as Upper Crossing of the North Platte River, it became the Mormon Ferry in 1847. Guinard built a bridge here in 1858, and troops from Platte Bridge Station guarded the telegraph line and prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3R_platte-bridge-cemetery_Casper-WY.html
You may be surprised that no one is buried under these stone markers. They represent some of the soldiers who died while stationed at Platte Bridge Station (Fort Caspar). The army removed the bodies originally located here and reinterred them at F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3Q_the-pony-express_Casper-WY.html
Here was the bustling Platte Bridge Station (later renamed Fort Caspar) with a relay station for the Pony Express. The bridge was a catalyst drawing together wilderness wayfarers — frontiersmen and immigrants — to learn late news of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3P_society-in-an-oil-patch_Midwest-WY.html
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In the early 1900s, hopeful oil workers flooded Salt Creek - especially "boomers" from "gone bust" oilfields in other states. Many companies built camps next to wells to house employees. As companies changed hands and shifted from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3N_oregon-trail-1847_Casper-WY.html
Marked by the
State of Wyoming
1914
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3M_mormon-pioneer-trail_Casper-WY.html
1336 miles - Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley
(Diagram of the Mormon Pioneer Trail)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q2Y_salt-creek-oil-field_Edgerton-WY.html
Stockmen were aware of pools of oil in the creek bottoms during cattle trailing days. These oil seeps led to the discovery of Salt Creek, one of Wyoming's largest oil fields, nine miles long by five miles wide.
In 1883, the first claims were f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O6A_mama-sage_Casper-WY.html
It is not coincidence that Wyoming supports over two-thirds of the world's population of pronghorn antelope and sage grouse. The only vast expanses of sagebrush-grassland habitat left on the North American continent are found in Wyoming, …