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Roadside historic markers are our windows to the past. They educate us, they make us curious to investigate, or they provide a nice excuse to take a break and stretch our legs while we read what happened here. This category is for those markers found in the state of Wyoming.
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A state historic marker on Trail Rut Hill near Guernsey WY

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 07/04/2022

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts

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location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts -- this is 2nd of 6, and the first of a set of two markers on the same subject.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts -- this is 3rd of 6, and the second of a set of 2 markers on the same subject.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts -- this is 4th of 6, and first of a set of three markers on the same subject.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts -- this is 5th of 6, and second of a set of three markers on the same subject.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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A series of six brown historical markers next to each other along the trail from the parking lot to the trail ruts -- this is 6th of 6, and third of a set of three markers on the same subject.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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Wyoming Historical MarkersWomen Pioneers of the Oregon Trail -- nr Guernsey WY

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The grave of Lucindy Rollins, an Oregon Trail pioneer who died here in 1849, was renovated and rededicated in 1934 to all of the women pioneers of the Oregon Trail.

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location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 06/13/2014

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Wyoming Historical MarkersRegister Cliff -- Register Cliff State Historic Site, nr Guernsey WY

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The state historic marker at Register Cliff, the famous landmark on the Oregon Trail, where Mama Blaster got buzzed at by a rattlesnake.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 01/31/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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Wyoming Historical MarkersRifle Pit Hill -- US 26 W of Guernsey WY

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The Wyoming historic marker about Rifle Pit Hill, which soldiers used to protect quarry workers and emigrants

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/05/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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Wyoming Historical MarkersCold Spring campground -- US 26 W of Guernsey WY

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A small grey granite marker marks the Cold Springs campsite on the Oregon Trail in a pull-out on US Hwy 26. The modern Rifle Pit historic marker is in the same pullout nearby.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/05/2014

last visited: 09/07/2018

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Wyoming Historical MarkersEnough Water to Go Around? -- US 26 rest area, E of Guernsey WY

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A large brown state historic marker at the US 26 rest area east of Guernsey WY

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/05/2014

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersLock and Roll Down a Rocky Road -- US 26 rest area E of Guernsey WY

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A new historic marker at the Guernsey rest area on US 26 describes the trip over the Oregon Trail

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/05/2014

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersCheyenne-Black Hills Trail -- W of Ft Laramie WY

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A granite roadside marker along US 26 west of Fort Laramie recalls the Cheyenne-Black Hills Wagon trail.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/03/2014

last visited: 08/12/2002

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Wyoming Historical MarkersThe Greatest Ride in History -- nr Fort Laramie NHS, Ft. Laramie WY

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A historic marker at the 90-degree turn on County Road 53 to the Fort Laramie National Historic Site

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/03/2014

last visited: 09/18/2014

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Wyoming Historical MarkersThe Rustic Hotel . . .'No Second-Rate Affair' -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY

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This Wyoming historical marker about the Rustic Hotel which operated in the late nineteenth century is located at a roadside pullout near the ruins of the post hospital on the road to Fort Laramie National historic site

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location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/05/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersCrossroads of a Nation Moving West -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY

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One of two historical markers at the parking area at the Fort Laramie National Historic Site, this marker gives a general overview of the history here

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/06/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersA Father's Grief - A Soldier's Honor -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Fort Laramie WY

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A historical marker at the parking area at Fort Laramie tells the tale of Mni Akuwan (Brings Water Home Woman), daughter of Lakota Chief Sinte Gleska (Spotted Tail) who is buried at Fort Laramie

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/05/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersFort Laramie A Military Post on the Oregon Trail -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY

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A tall concrete obelisk erected at Fort Laramie in 1913 to preserve the history of a place that at the time was being demolished through neglect

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location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/06/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersThe Pony Express -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY

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One of several historical markers on an obelisk at Fort Laramie National Historic Site, this marker is about the Pony Express which passed through Fort Laramie from 1860-61.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/06/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical Markers120 Celebrated Pony Express Riders -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Fort Laramie WY

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Second of 2 historical markers about the pony express at an old PX stop at Fort Laramie, at the time a government military fort on the Oregon Trail.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/06/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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Wyoming Historical MarkersTranscontinental Telegraph (1/2) -- Fort Laramie NHS, nr Ft Laramie WY

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The first of two historic plaques on an obelisk about the Transcontinental Telegraph between the cavalry Barracks and the Post Store at Fort Laramie National Historic Site

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/03/2014

last visited: 09/18/2014

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Wyoming Historical MarkersFort Laramie and The Transcontinental Telegraph (2/2) -- Fort Laramie NHS

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The second of two historic plaques on an obelisk about the Transcontinental Telegraph between the cavalry Barracks and the Post Store at Fort Laramie National Historic Site

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz

location: Wyoming

date approved: 02/03/2014

last visited: 09/18/2014

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Wyoming Historical MarkersCommissary Storehouse -- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY

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The historical marker in front of the old Fort Laramie commissary storehouse

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location: Wyoming

date approved: 04/06/2018

last visited: 08/07/2013

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A marker near Ft Laramie on WY 160.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Markerman62

location: Wyoming

date approved: 03/14/2015

last visited: 08/07/2013

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