List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming
The list of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. There are 27 oNational Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Wyoming. The first designated were two on December 19, 1960; the latest was on December 23, 2016.
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|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 1 | Ames Monument
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| style="text-align: center;" | October 31, 2016
(#72001296)
| class="adr" | Sherman
41°07′52″N 105°23′53″W / 41.131111°N 105.398056°W
| class="note" | A pivotal and highly significant work in the career of Henry Hobson Richardson.[1]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 2 | Expedition Island
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| style="text-align: center;" | October 18, 1968
(#68000056)
| class="adr" | Green River
41°31′23″N 109°28′16″W / 41.523°N 109.471°W
| class="note" | Expedition Island is a park in Green River, Wyoming that marks the area where Major John Wesley Powell started an expedition down the Green River and Colorado River in 1871.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background:DarkTurquoise" | 3 | Fort D.A. Russell
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 15, 1975
(#69000191)
| class="adr" | Cheyenne
41°09′59″N 104°51′46″W / 41.166389°N 104.862778°W
| class="note" | In 1867, the fort was established to protect workers for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1871, it was base to the Pawnee scout battalion.[2]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 4 | Fort Phil Kearny and Associated Sites
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| style="text-align: center;" | December 19, 1960
(#66000756)
| class="adr" | Story
44°31′56″N 106°49′35″W / 44.532222°N 106.826389°W
| class="note" | Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail.[3]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 5 | Fort Yellowstone
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| style="text-align: center;" | July 31, 2003
(#03001032)
| class="adr" | Yellowstone National Park
44°58′30″N 110°41′53″W / 44.975°N 110.698056°W
| class="note" | Fort Yellowstone is a former United States Army base created in 1888 to guard the park. It became administrative headquarters of Yellowstone National Park.[4]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 6 | Heart Mountain Relocation Center
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| style="text-align: center;" | September 20, 2006
(#85003167)
| class="adr" | Ralston
44°40′18″N 108°56′47″W / 44.671667°N 108.946389°W
| class="note" | An internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II
|- class="vcard"
! scope=row style="background-color:
#87CEEB;" | 7
| Hell Gap Paleoindian Site (48GO305)
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| style="text-align: center;" | December 23, 2016
(#100000877)
| class="adr" | Guernsey vicinity
42°24′30″N 104°38′22″W / 42.408223°N 104.639407°W
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! scope=row style="background-color:
#87CEEB;" | 8
| Horner Site
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| style="text-align: center;" | January 20, 1961
(#66000758)
| class="adr" | Cody
44°33′21″N 108°59′39″W / 44.555833°N 108.994167°W
| class="note" | Non-public archaeological site yielding evidence of a flint tool culture, with occupation dating back to 5000 BC.[5]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 9 | Independence Rock
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| style="text-align: center;" | January 20, 1961
(#66000757)
| class="adr" | Casper
42°29′37″N 107°07′46″W / 42.493611°N 107.129444°W
| class="note" | Independence Rock is a large granite rock, approximately 130 ft (40 m) high, which served as a landmark on the Oregon Trail and California Trail in southwestern Natrona County.[6]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 10 | Jackson Lake Lodge
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| style="text-align: center;" | July 31, 2003
(#03001039)
| class="adr" | Grand Teton National Park
43°52′39″N 110°34′36″W / 43.8775°N 110.576667°W
| class="note" | Designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood and completed in 1955, the lodge built in International style represents a break from the traditional rustic style of architecture used by the National Park Service.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background:DarkTurquoise" | 11 | Lake Guernsey State Park
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| style="text-align: center;" | September 25, 1997
(#80004051)
| class="adr" | Guernsey
42°18′14″N 104°46′10″W / 42.303889°N 104.769444°W
| class="note" | Model Civilian Conservation Corps-built state park buildings and structures
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 12 | Lake Hotel
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| style="text-align: center;" | February 27, 2015
(#91000637)
| class="adr" | North side of Lake Yellowstone St., Yellowstone National Park
44°32′59″N 110°24′00″W / 44.549722°N 110.4°W
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|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 13 | Medicine Mountain
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| style="text-align: center;" | August 29, 1970
(#69000184)
| class="adr" | Lovell
44°49′32″N 107°55′15″W / 44.8255556°N 107.9208°W
| class="note" | Site of a native American medicine wheel, used for healing and religious purposes
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background:DarkTurquoise" | 14 | Murie Ranch Historic District
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| style="text-align: center;" | February 17, 2006
(#98001039)
| class="adr" | Grand Teton National Park[7]
43°39′02″N 110°43′37″W / 43.650556°N 110.726944°W
| class="note" | A group of several cabins in Grand Teton National Park that were owned by naturalist Olaus Murie, his wife Margaret Murie and scientist Adolph Murie and his wife Louise in the 1940s.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 15 | Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 28, 1987
(#87001445)
| class="adr" | Yellowstone National Park
44°43′27″N 110°42′21″W / 44.72424°N 110.70578°W
| class="note" | Three "trailside museums" in National Park Service Rustic style within Yellowstone National Park
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 16 | Obsidian Cliff
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| style="text-align: center;" | June 19, 1996
(#96000973)
| class="adr" | Yellowstone National Park
44°49′08″N 110°43′40″W / 44.8189°N 110.7278°W
| class="note" | An exposure of obsidian (volcanic glass). It was a notable source of lithic materials for prehistoric peoples.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 17 | Old Faithful Inn
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 28, 1987
(#73000226)
| class="adr" | Yellowstone National Park
44°27′28″N 110°49′49″W / 44.45784°N 110.83031°W
| class="note" | National Park Service architecture
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 18 | Oregon Trail Ruts
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 23, 1966
(#66000761)
| class="adr" | Guernsey
42°15′22″N 104°44′58″W / 42.256111°N 104.749444°W
| class="note" | One half mile long section of Oregon Trail, worn 2–6 feet into sandstone ridge
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background:DarkTurquoise" | 19 | J. C. Penney Historic District
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| style="text-align: center;" | June 2, 1978
(#78002830)
| class="adr" | Kemmerer
41°47′41″N 110°32′09″W / 41.794722°N 110.535833°W
| class="note" | Buildings associated with James Cash Penney's founding of J. C. Penney department store chain here.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 20 | Sheridan Inn
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| style="text-align: center;" | January 29, 1964
(#66000762)
| class="adr" | Sheridan
44°48′25″N 106°57′12″W / 44.80683°N 106.95333°W
| class="note" | Inn operated by Buffalo Bill Cody
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 21 | South Pass
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| style="text-align: center;" | January 20, 1961
(#66000754)
| class="adr" | South Pass City
42°22′12″N 108°54′49″W / 42.37°N 108.913611°W
| class="note" | This was the easiest crossing point of the Continental Divide during the 19th century, serving American pioneers, fur traders, and miners. The access it offered to the Pacific Northwest greatly strengthened the U.S. claim to that region.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 22 | Tom Sun Ranch
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| style="text-align: center;" | December 19, 1960
(#66000753)
| class="adr" | Casper
42°26′36″N 107°13′06″W / 42.443333°N 107.218333°W
| class="note" | Tom Sun Ranch was a typical medium-sized ranching operation of the open range period in the 1870s-80s. Tom Sun was a French-Canadian cattleman and frontiersman.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 23 | Swan Land and Cattle Company Headquarters
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| style="text-align: center;" | July 19, 1964
(#66000760)
| class="adr" | Chugwater
41°45′17″N 104°49′10″W / 41.754828°N 104.819328°W
| class="note" | The surviving buildings include the ranchhouse, barn, and commissary, for this company organized in Scotland in 1883.[8]
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 24 | Union Pacific Railroad Depot
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| style="text-align: center;" | February 15, 2006
(#73001934)
| class="adr" | Cheyenne
41°07′54″N 104°48′51″W / 41.131667°N 104.814167°W
| class="note" | Railroad depot and related buildings.
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 25 | Upper Green River Rendezvous Site
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| style="text-align: center;" | November 5, 1961
(#66000763)
| class="adr" | Daniel
42°52′21″N 110°02′20″W / 42.872505°N 110.038819°W
| class="note" | Location of several Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, a 1,200 acres (490 ha) site on the Green River
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 26 | Wapiti Ranger Station
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 23, 1963
(#66000759)
| class="adr" | Wapiti
44°27′50″N 109°36′58″W / 44.46388°N 109.61613°W
| class="note" | First U.S. Forest Service ranger station
|- class="vcard" ! scope=row style="background-color: #87CEEB;" | 27 | Wyoming State Capitol
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| style="text-align: center;" | May 4, 1987
(#73001935)
| class="adr" | Cheyenne
41°08′23″N 104°49′12″W / 41.13983°N 104.81992°W
| class="note" | Current state capitol building |}
See also
- Historic preservation
- List of National Historic Landmarks by state
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wyoming
References
- ^ "Secretary Jewell, Director Jarvis Announce 10 New National Historic Landmarks Illustrating America's Diverse History, Culture". Department of the Interior. November 2, 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ NPS webpage, March 2009: NPS-gov-842 Archived 2006-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ NPS webpage, March 2009: NPS-gov-565 Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ NPS webpage, March 2009: NPS-gov-32** Archived 2012-07-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ NPS webpage, March 2009: NPS-gov-567 Archived 2006-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ NPS webpage, March 2009: NPS-gov-566 Archived 2009-04-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ National Park Service (2007). "Murie Ranch - National Park Week: National Register of Historic Places Celebrates National Park". Retrieved 2007-12-16.
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External links
- National Historic Landmark Program at the National Park Service
- Lists of National Historic Landmarks
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