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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PUP_dayton-community-hall_Ranchester-WY.html
410 Bridge Street
Dayton, Wyoming 82836
"Built in 1935-35 for the Town of Dayton by the WPA & the CCC"
National Register of Historic Places
Wyoming Place No. 1338
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PUO_slack-wyoming_Parkman-WY.html
Site of
Slack, Wyoming
Town, Church, Postoffice
1890 — 1911
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O7C_big-horns_Sheridan-WY.html
The abundance of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep led the Indians to name this mountain range after these majestic animals. The Big Horn Mountains are a wildlife viewing paradise. Several native Indian tribes competed with each other and later with se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O7A_a-place-of-shelter_Sheridan-WY.html
A moderate climate shelters this land from the harsh winds and extreme temperatures familiar to much of Wyoming. Excellent grass and pure water drew both Indians and cattlemen to this country. The original Red Angus breed of cattle was dev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLF_syncline-thrust-fault_Dayton-WY.html
Across the road is a thrust fault / syncline formation, exposed by the road cut. The fault occurred when pressure caused the rock layers to push up creating the non-conforming layers and downward fold (syncline). The Big Horn Mountains reached the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLD_hogback_Dayton-WY.html
About 500 million years ago the air and land were warmer, and seas covered all of Wyoming including the area you see. You would not recognize any animal life at that time. None of it lived on the land. Then around 75 million years ago, the earth's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLC_fallen-city_Dayton-WY.html
In the process of uplift, which created the Big Horn Mountains, faults and fractures formed in the rocks. The thick layers of limestone in this area were fractured parallel to the valley. When a section of the Earth's crust sank, huge chunks broke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NL6_ranchester_Ranchester-WY.html
Ranchester was established in 1894. The McShane Tie Company used it as a shipping point for railroad ties. These ties were cut and hewn by hand in the Big Horn Mountains. They then floated down a six mile flume to the Tongue River. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4T_the-bozeman-trail-1863-1868_Banner-WY.html
The Bozeman Trail was established in 1863 by John Bozeman and John Jacobs as a shortcut to the Montana goldfields. It started from Virginia City, at Adler Gulch, in Montana, heading southward across Wyoming and the Powder River country where it ju…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4S_as-an-infantryman_Banner-WY.html
. . . you are part of a detail formed this morning consisting of 49 men from companies A, C, E, and H of the 18th Infantry Regiment, you are told you will relieve a wood train under attack on Sullivan Hill for the third time in three weeks. On De…