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The Luzerne County Historical Society is one of the oldest continually operating local historical societies in America. It was founded on February 11, 1858, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first successful burning of anthracite coal by Jesse Fell, and was originally named the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
This timeline is a chronology of significant events in the history of the U.S. State of Wyoming and the historical area now occupied by the state. 2000s 1900s 1800s Statehood Territory 1700s 1600s 1500s Before 1492
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943 (Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, 2013) Chamblin, Thomas S. ed. Historical encyclopedia of Wyoming (2 vol Wyoming Historical Institute, 1954) 952 biographies in 1040 pages. Chapple, Simon.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Wyoming on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites is the Wyoming state agency that administers its state parks. Also known as Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites & Trails, the agency is headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [1]
Location of Sweetwater County in Wyoming. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The American Heritage Center is the University of Wyoming's repository of manuscripts, rare books, and the university archives. [1] [2] Its collections focus on Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West (including politics, settlement, Native Americans, and Western trails) [3] and a select handful of national topics: environment and conservation, the mining and petroleum industries, air and rail ...
She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [3] [4] The museum opened in 2012. [5] The Wyoming State Historical Society says Swain was "the first woman in the world to cast a ballot under laws giving women and men equal voting rights". [6] The Johnson Lummis Hunkins Plaza is outside the Wyoming House for Historic Women.