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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «niobrara county» AND «wyoming»

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By Barry Swackhamer, June 7, 2016
Jireh Marker
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1 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Manville — Jireh —
On South Jireh Road (at milepost 26) at U.S. 18, on the left when traveling south on South Jireh Road.
In the early 1900s, when homesteaders flocked to eastern Wyoming where agriculture opportunities seemed very promising, the Christian Church of Dayton, Ohio organized a religious agricultural colony and college fourteen miles west of Lusk and . . . — — Map (db m98302) HM

2 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Lusk — Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail —
Near U.S. 18 at milepost 39 near Silver Springs Road, on the left when traveling west.
Here you stand on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail over which freight wagons and stagecoaches traveled between Cheyenne and the Black Hills gold mining area from 1876 to 1877. One of these stages may be seen in the Lusk museum. The nearby monument is at . . . — — Map (db m98291) HM

3 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Lusk — Wyoming National Guard Armory —
On South Main (CanAm Highway) (Highway 18/85) just south of West 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south.
December 18, 1967 brought 40 years of the Wyoming National Guard in Lusk to a close. Built in 1927, this National Guard Armory was constructed on land donated by the local American Legion chapter. Special legislation authorized the funding for . . . — — Map (db m242198) HM

4 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Lusk — The Common Corner to Nebraska and South Dakota on the Wyoming Line —
Near Indian Creek Road.
The survey for the boundary between Nebraska and Wyoming Territory began August 17th, 1869, at the intersection of the 41st Parallel of Latitude and the 27th degree of Longitude West of Washington DC. Oliver N. Chaffee, astronomer and surveyor, . . . — — Map (db m285216) HM

5 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Lusk — Niobrara County Courthouse — A Public Office is a Public Trust —
On East 5th Street at South Elm Street, on the left when traveling east on East 5th Street.
Niobrara County was created from the former territory of Converse County by an act of the Wyoming Legislature on February 14, 1911 and was organized January 6, 1913. Lusk was designated as the county seat. Both the creation of the county, and the . . . — — Map (db m203249) HM

6 ► Wyoming, Niobrara County, Lusk — Redwood Water Tank —
On East 3rd Street (U.S. 20) 0.1 miles east of Holly Street, on the right when traveling west.
This Redwood Water Tank was built by the Wyoming Central Railway in 1886. It was first filled by a windmill, then by other types of pumps. It stored water for the steam engines that pulled the trains. It is one of only six remaining in the nation. . . . — — Map (db m41961) HM
 
    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
 
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