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1977 - Cheyenne Community Solar Greenhouse [24] and Historic Governor's Mansion museum opens. [19] 1978 - Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum founded. 1979 - July 16: Tornado. [25] 1980 - Population: 47,283. [26] 1981 - Frontier Mall in business. 1993 - Cheyenne Depot Museum founded. 1999 - City website online (approximate date).
On December 10, 1869, Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote, becoming the first future U.S. state to extend suffrage to women. Wyoming was also the home of many other firsts for U.S. women in politics. The first time women served on a jury was in Wyoming (Laramie in 1870).
Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / shy-AN or / ʃ aɪ ˈ ɛ n / shy-EN) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 census. [6]
Apr. 10—CHEYENNE — Everyone knows Wyoming earned its nickname as The Equality State because it was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1890. What might not be as well known ...
Oct. 24—CHEYENNE — Cheyenne has a lot of history, which can make books that try to contain it big and cumbersome. For that reason, a new trade paperback sized book, "A History Lover's Guide to ...
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
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Women's rights organizations in other western states looked to Wyoming as a model. [25] Women had held office in a range of capacities. [2] In 1880, Susan Johnson was appointed postmaster in Cheyenne and Mary Bellamy became the first woman to serve in a state legislature. Wyoming women exercised their right to vote: in the 1880s nearly 90% of ...