On Big Muddy Road near Cole Creek Road (County Route 22), on the left when traveling east.
Caleb and Nancy Magill with their six children were part of a wagon train traveling fro Brown County, Kansas, to Dallas, Oregon, in 1864. After leaving Fort Laramie their three-year-old daughter Ada was taken sick with dysentery. At Deer Creek . . . — — Map (db m92079) HM
On Tank Farm Road (County Route 27) near Business Interstate 25, on the right when traveling east.
Nineteen-year-old Alvah Unthank was one of a group of young men who left Newport, Wayne County, Indiana, for the goldfields of California in 1850. On June 23 the wagon train passed Register Cliff, south of Guernsey. There Alvah inscribed his name: . . . — — Map (db m177934) HM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 170 near County Road 11 (underpass), on the right when traveling west.
Big Muddy oil field is a typical Wyoming oil producing structure. The field, discovered in 1916, has produced over 30 million barrels of high quality oil. Strata here were arched upward at the time the Rocky Mountains originated about 60 million . . . — — Map (db m92097) HM
On South 4th Street (Business Route 25), on the left when traveling south.
Deer Creek Station, which once stood on the site of present- day Glenrock near the confluence of Deer Creek and the North Platte River, became a familiar landmark along the Oregon-California-Mormon Trail between 1857 and 1866.
The station began . . . — — Map (db m92081) HM
On South 5th Street near West Aspen Street, on the right when traveling north.
To All Pioneers
Who passed this way
and
in memory of
Pioneer Geologist
Ferdinand V. Hayden
Chief U.S. Geological Survey
of the Territories
1867-78
Born at Westfield, Mass, 1829 — — Map (db m92082) HM
On West Birch Street (U.S. 26) near Wyoming Highway 95, on the right when traveling east.
On July 26, 1842 John C. Fremont's first expedition to the far west guided by Kit Carson with Joseph Bissonette as interpreter, also L. Maxwell as hunter, camped in this rocky glen.
Names and dates of many of the 300,000 travelers of the . . . — — Map (db m92080) HM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 152 near Natural Bridge Road (County Route 13), on the right when traveling east.
Three men named Sharp,
Franklin, and Taylor, and
one unknown man were
killed by Indians July 12,
1864 where the Oregon
Trail crosses Little Box
Elder Creek 2 1/2 miles S.W.
of here. They were buried
4 miles S.W. by the grave . . . — — Map (db m92087) HM
On Deer Creek Road (County Highway 19) 1 mile south of I-25 (U.S. I-25), on the left when traveling south.
One of the first two stations built to supply the Mormon emigrants and mail station to accommodate the mail service by virtue of the mail contract awarded to Hyrum Kimball agent of the BYX.
Abandoned in 1858 due to the actions of the United . . . — — Map (db m151835) HM
