Site of Field City -- Weston County
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N 43° 49.276 W 104° 08.483
13T E 569044 N 4852379
An historical marker noting the site of the Field City ghost town.
Waymark Code: WMMRXM
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2014
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Text of the sign:
SITE OF FIELD CITY
The deserted site of Field City or Tubb Town offers silent testimony to the boom and bust fate of many western towns.
In the spring of 1889 Deloss Tubbs, a businessman from Custer, Dakota Territory, laid out Field City around his store on the east bank of Salt Creek. Tubbs, together with saloon keeper F.R. Curran, foresaw the economic advantages of locating a townsite along the anticipated route of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Idled at Alliance, Nebraska, for want of suitable locomotive coal to continue its northwest course, the B & M sought a connection with the trans-continental Northern Pacific at Billings, Montana. Recently discovered coal deposits at Cambria, nine miles northwest of Tubb Town, made the railroad extension possible.
Within a few months Tubb Town could boast of a milk ranch, newspaper and Chinese laundry. However, the town's saloons, dance halls, and sporting houses fostered a "hell raising" notoriety. The first ordinance passed by the new residents reportedly stated that "no one shall pass through without paying sufficient toll to set 'em up to the bunch."
The eagerly awaited connection with the Burlington and Missouri upon which Tubb Town staked its future failed to materialize. Land price disagreements resulted in a reroute two miles west. In November 1889, the railway reached the fledgling town of Newcastle.
Residents of Tubb Town, accepting the inevitable, packed up their businesses and belongings and moved en masse to Newcastle. Thus, Field City died unceremoniously in the year of its birth, leaving only memories and occasional symptoms of "Tubb Town hangover" to perplex Newcastle citizens.
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