Miners Delight Cemetery - Miners Delight, Wyoming, USA
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Tom.dog
N 42° 31.896 W 108° 40.676
12T E 690703 N 4711414
This abandoned and overgrown cemetery sits to the south of the gold mining ghost town of Miners Delight, located on the southeastern end of the Wind River Range.
Waymark Code: WM18MYQ
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2023
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This cemetery sits on Bureau of Land Management land, and served as the burial site for the residents of the gold mining ghost town of Miners Delight. The ghost town, which consists of several well-preserved buildings that are open to the public to view via a short hike to the north, was founded in 1867 as Hamilton City and was renamed Miners Delight the following year. According to a historic marker located near Atlantic City, the last residents of the town departed in the 1970s.
It is unclear as to how many individuals are interred here. Only one headstone remains standing, and there are three fenced-in areas within the boundary of the cemetery (the Bureau of Land Management has constructed a wooden split rail fence around the cemetery to mark its boundary). The small cemetery is completely overgrown by sagebrush and several small pine trees.
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