Historical Markers and War Memorials in Ranchester, Wyoming
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Ranchester is in Sheridan County
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On Dayton Street (U.S. 14) at Gillette Street, on the right when traveling east on Dayton Street.
At this site on Tongue River, August 29, 1865, Brigadier General Patrick E. Connor. 125 cavalrymen, and 90 Indian scouts attacked an Arapaho village of several hundred lodges. After a swift night march, Connor’s men surprised and stormed the . . . — — Map (db m86053) HM
In 1865 General Patrick E. Connor led the “Powder River Expedition” into this area. This expedition was a part of a broad military program to bring the Indians north of the Platte River under control and halt their depredations along the . . . — — Map (db m92720) WM
On Gillette Street, on the left when traveling south.
Here Aug. 29,1865, troops and Indian scouts commanded by Gen. P.E. Connor destroyed an Arapahoe Indian village. Erected by The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1936 — — Map (db m86892) HM
On Dayton Street (U.S. 14), on the right when traveling west.
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. . . . — — Map (db m88159) HM
On Dayton Street (U.S. 14) west of Halfway Lane (County Route 71), on the right when traveling west.
Bingham Post Office and stage station on the Rock Creek stage line was located from 1879 to 1885 at Benjamin F. Smith’s ranch on the north side of the Tongue River, where the stage road crossed. The site is in a field west of the ranch buildings, . . . — — Map (db m86278) HM
Near Gillette Street, on the left when traveling south.
On this site during the early morning hours of August 29, 1865, General Patrick Edward Connor led over 200 troops in an attack on Chief Black Bear’s Arapaho village. Connor had departed from Fort Laramie on July 30th with 184 wagons, a . . . — — Map (db m86058) HM
On Dayton Street (U.S. 14) west of Halfway Lane (County Route 71), on the right when traveling west.
Historically, this area of the Tongue River served as a trail and stage road crossing. The Boseman Trail, road to the Montana gold fields, crossed here beginning in 1864. The Bozeman cut through the Powder River Basin, violating the Fort . . . — — Map (db m86276) HM
