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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYS_all-because-of-an-ancient-lake_McKinnon-WY.html
The bed of prehistoric Lake Gosiute (Go-shute) lies hundred of feet below you. This ancient lake set the stage of the world's largest trona and oil shale deposits as well as a significant natural gas reserve. Lake Gosiute Creates Trona Around …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYR_barren-land_McKinnon-WY.html
The towers you see here are the remains of a complex system of sand filled channels of ancient Lake Gosiute. The sandstone promontories of the Laney Member of the Green River Formation were deposited during the middle Eocene Epoch from about 40 to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYP_linwood-bay_WY.html
Center panel: From this point you can see Linwood Bay of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Beneath the surface of the reservoir at the far western end, lies the site of the town of Linwood. When Flaming Gorge Dam was built in the early 1960's, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYK_1825-rocky-mountain-rendezvous_McKinnon-WY.html
"When all had come in, he (Ashley) opened his goods, and there was a general jubilee.... We constituted quite a little town, numbering at least eight hundred souls, ...half were women and children. There were some ... who had not seen any grocerie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXU_green-river-brewery_Green-River-WY.html
The National Register of Historic Places Wyoming Place No. 165 (Marker Number 165.)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXT_the-24-hour-town_Green-River-WY.html
For the first 100 years of its history, Green River's population fluctuated between 2,000 and 4,000 people. Townspeople lived north of the Green River, staggered on both the north and south sides of the railroad tracks. In the 1970s, an increase i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXQ_the-overland-stage-station-route_Green-River-WY.html
The Overland Stage station route operated 1861-1868 Green River Division Station site 350 years east
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXP_trona-precursors_Green-River-WY.html
Just prior to World War II, the Union Pacific Railroad verified the existence of trona and the immense size of the trona patch through core drilling across its vast land holdings. Prior to development of the trona industry in the 1940s and 1950s, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXN_sodium-carbonate-brine_Green-River-WY.html
Where sodium carbonate brine was discovered in 1896, which was the fore-runner of the present sodium chemical industry in this area.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OWT_construction-and-cooling_Green-River-WY.html
The Green River has long been a workplace for several major industries, providing jobs to many people in the area. Harvest of railroad ties was one of the first to develop. From 1868 to 1945, spring runoff signaled the arrival of the ties and tie …
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