South Pass played a crucial role in allowing the booming United States to spread from coast to coast
The Grand Teton National Park Historic Properties Management Plan Environmental Assessment is open for comments until February 17. The plan evaluates present conditions and future uses for the 44 historic properties located within Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Among these properties is Sky Ranch, an architect-designed complex of beautifully crafted log buildings constructed as a vacation retreat in 1953. The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to demolish the National-Register eligible Sky Ranch – WE DISAGREE!
Wyoming’s economy has long been driven by energy extraction. However, what remains less well-known are some of the remarkable industrial heritage sites that dot the state.
David Noyes remembers attending Hebard Elementary School in the 1950s
The barn was built for Polish homesteaders Walentz Podlaszewski and Veronica Zwolkowski Podlaszewski around 1910.
Yellowstone Elementary School was completed in 1923, and today houses the Sweetwater County Family Justice Center.
Wyoming has always been at the heart of the nation’s move west.
Hilery Lindmier recalls childhood memories of watching Wyoming Symphony Orchestra concerts from the balcony of the auditorium in Casper’s distinct Natrona County High School
The Andy Chambers property, which was occupied from about 1916 to 1980, is the most intact homestead remaining from the original settlement of Gros Ventre (pronounced “Grovont”), which at its height was home to almost 30 families.
Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming dates back to 1843 when Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez established an emigrant supply stop along the Oregon Trail at the Black’s Fork of the Green River
Built in 1962 as a Minuteman 1 site, Quebec #1 was re-purposed for the Peacekeeper Missile in 1986 and was used until 2005. Twenty-five miles north of Cheyenne, this facility will eventually be the only one of its kind left in the world.
The Old Town Hall in Bairoil was built in the 1920s to serve a growing oil company town.
Artist Abraham Archibald Anderson established this lodge in what is now the Shoshone National Forest in 1890.
AMK Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Wyo, 2015.
The Kaycee Methodist Church was originally built in 1910 in the Salt Creek oil fields. The structure was relocated in 1930 and became the town of Kaycee’s community church.
The Warren Rest House is located in Holliday Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The structure is named for Frances E.Warren.
The Mankin Barn is located on the former Keeline/4J Ranch outside Gillette, Wyoming. The barn was built for the Keeline brothers in 1908, and has served as a horse barn ever since.
The Emerson Parks house is a two-story log cabin located in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. The house is named for a distinguished former local resident, Emerson Parks (1887-1965), who was a geologist and cartographer.
Construction on the Frontier Prison began in 1888, but funding and weather concerns pushed the official opening of Cell Block A to 1901.
Willis Moses Spear established the Spear-O-Wigwam camp with his wife Virginia in 1923. Originally just a tent camp, the guest ranch grew to include 16 buildings.
The First Congregational United Church of Christ was built in 1911. This classic example of Gothic Revival architecture sits within the Sheridan Downtown Historic District.