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—Frank S. Lusk Lusk and the Western Live Stock Company arrived in the Wyoming Territory in 1880 via Denver, establishing the Node Ranch, about 15 miles (24 km) east of present-day Lusk. A year later, he bought some land about 3 miles (5 km) outside of Lusk, which included the Running Water Stage Station. Buildings on the land included a stone barn and shelters that had been used by the ...
Charlotte Shepard, better known by the alias "Mother Featherlegs" (died 1879), was a prostitute who lived near Lusk, Wyoming and was murdered during a robbery in 1879. She received her name because of the ruffled lace underwear she wore.
The C & H Refinery Historic District comprises an intact industrial complex in Lusk, Wyoming that documents an early 20th-century refinery.The C & H Refinery is noted as the smallest functioning oil refinery in the world, and may be the only remaining thermal distillation refinery, all other refineries having modernized to the catalytic cracking method.
Location of Niobrara County in Wyoming. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Niobrara County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Niobrara County (WY) SR85. Niobrara County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 2,467, [1] making it the least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Lusk. [2] Its eastern boundary abuts the west lines of the states of Nebraska and South Dakota.
A Wyoming Department of Transportation rest area, reconstructed in 2007–08, is located on the northeast corner of the Junction. [1] The southeast corner of the site has been occupied by various service stations and truck stops, the last of which was demolished (after suffering a fire - see below) in the late 1990s. [ 2 ]
Memorial to George Lathrop and the stage route at the rest area in Lusk. The Rawhide Buttes Stage Station, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates the stage coach route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota.
The Lusk Water Tower was built in 1886 to provide water for steam locomotives on the former Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, at Lusk, Wyoming.Lusk itself was built by the railroad at the same time.