The Oakes and Oliver Ames Monument, a landmark on the Lincoln Highway near Buford WY, was named to the US National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and became a National Historical Landmark in 2016.
The Oakes and Oliver Ames Monument, a landmark on the Lincoln Highway near Buford WY, lies just a short distance off the route of the old Lincoln Highway (and the modern I-80) along Monument Road near Buford WY.
This monument was previously located ON the route of the Union Pacific as it made its way over Sherman Hill, but when the UP rerouted its tracks a bit to the south, the monument was left at this historical point, the summit of Sherman Hill on the UPRR.
In the 19-teens the Lincoln Highway was routed over Sherman Hill, just a bit to the north of the monument. Nevertheless, the monument was visible from the highway, and so it was a tourist draw for those motoring by then, and now.
It also drew the attention of NGS Surveyors, as follows from the datasheet: (
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"MO1233 DESIGNATION - AMES MONUMENT
MO1233 PID - MO1233
MO1233 STATE/COUNTY- WY/ALBANY
MO1233 USGS QUAD - SHERMAN MOUNTAINS WEST (1992)
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MO1233 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
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MO1233* NAD 83(1993)- 41 07 51.88074(N) 105 23 53.35696(W) ADJUSTED
MO1233* NAVD 88 - 2544. (meters) 8346. (feet) SCALED
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MO1233 LAPLACE CORR- -10.11 (seconds) DEFLEC99
MO1233 GEOID HEIGHT- -12.24 (meters) GEOID99
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MO1233 HORZ ORDER - THIRD
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MO1233.The horizontal coordinates were established by classical geodetic methods
MO1233.and adjusted by the National Geodetic Survey in January 1997.
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MO1233.The orthometric height was scaled from a topographic map.
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MO1233.The Laplace correction was computed from DEFLEC99 derived deflections.
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MO1233.The geoid height was determined by GEOID99.
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MO1233; North East Units Scale Converg.
MO1233;SPC WY E - 70,102.875 180,563.554 MT 0.99994215 -0 09 08.2
MO1233;UTM 13 - 4,553,384.508 466,580.968 MT 0.99961374 -0 15 42.8
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MO1233 SUPERSEDED SURVEY CONTROL
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MO1233 NAD 83(1993)- 41 07 51.86890(N) 105 23 53.35501(W) AD( ) 3
MO1233 NAD 83(1986)- 41 07 51.86820(N) 105 23 53.35496(W) AD( ) 3
MO1233 NAD 27 - 41 07 51.93913(N) 105 23 51.40299(W) AD( ) 3
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MO1233.Superseded values are not recommended for survey control.
MO1233.NGS no longer adjusts projects to the NAD 27 or NGVD 29 datums.
MO1233.See file dsdata.txt to determine how the superseded data were derived.
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MO1233_STABILITY: D = MARK OF QUESTIONABLE OR UNKNOWN STABILITY
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MO1233 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
MO1233 HISTORY - 1915 MONUMENTED USGS
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MO1233 STATION DESCRIPTION
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MO1233''DESCRIBED BY US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1915
MO1233''AMES MONUMENT, ON THE SUMMIT OF THE SHERMAN HILL, NEAR THE TOWN OF
MO1233''SHERMAN, ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. THE MONUMENT IS ABOUT 35 FT.
MO1233''HIGH AND WAS BUILT BY THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. AMES MONUMENT,
MO1233''GRANITE PYRAMID BASE, 60 FT. SQUARE, HEIGHT 60 FT.
MO1233''
MO1233''STATION MARK AND SIGNAL--APEX OF MONUMENT.
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MO1233''REFERENCE MARKS--NONE."