Buffalo, Wyoming
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BruceS
N 44° 20.893 W 106° 41.961
13T E 364555 N 4911954
Historical marker on the grounds of the Johnson County courthouse in Buffalo, Wyoming.
Waymark Code: WM1YT2
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2007
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Buffalo Wyoming, the Johnson County seat chartered March 3, 1884, started
as a trading center for Fort McKinney located two miles west of town which was
founded July 18 1878, and is now the Veterans Home of Wyoming. The court
house was built in 1884 and is listed in the National Register of Historic
Places. Main Street started out as a game trail across Clear Creek.
The Bozeman Trail used this route to the Montana gold fields and thus
precipitated the bloody Indian Wars of the 1860's around Fort Phil Kearny 17
miles north of Buffalo. The war memorial originally on this site was
replaced by the adjacent black granite Veterans Memorial dedicated 11 November
1987. - text of marker