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70000668 [1] Added to NRHP. April 28, 1970. Fort Halleck was a military outpost that existed in the 1860s along the Overland Trail and stage route in what was then the Territory of Idaho, now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1862 to protect emigrant travelers and stages transporting mail between Kansas and Salt Lake City ...
The mine was eventually acquired by the North American Copper Company for $1,000,000 Million. By 1904 the mine had produced $1.4 million in copper ore, and was sold to the Penn-Wyoming Copper Company. However, even with copper prices peaking in 1907, the company had difficulty making a profit from the remote mine site.
There are 50 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 1 of which is a National Historic Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 9, 2024.[2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Contents: Counties in Wyoming. Albany - Big Horn - Campbell - Carbon ...
Wyoming has been the largest producer of coal in the United States since 1986, [1] and in 2018, coal mines employed approximately 1% of the state's population. [2] In 2013, there were 17 active coal mines in Wyoming, which produced 388 million short tons, 39 percent of all the coal mined in the US, and more than three times the production of ...
The Garrett Allen Prehistoric Site is an archeological site in Carbon County, Wyoming. The site was used in the Late Middle Prehistoric Period (1500 BC to 500 AD) and into the Late Prehistoric Period (500 AD to 1700AD). The site was used as an animal butchering location.
Richardsonian design. The Ames Monument is located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Laramie, Wyoming, on a wind-blown, treeless summit south of Interstate 80 at the Vedauwoo exit. The monument is a four-sided, random ashlar pyramid, 60 feet (18 m) square at the base and 60 feet (18 m) high, constructed of light-colored native granite.
Uranium mining in Wyoming was formerly a much larger industry than it is today. Wyoming once had many operating uranium mines, and still has the largest known uranium ore reserves of any state in the U.S. At the end of 2008, the state had estimated reserves dependent on price: 539 million pounds of uranium oxide at $50 per pound, and 1,227 ...
Willow Creek mine. Wyodak Mine. Categories: Mining in Wyoming. Mines in the United States by state. Buildings and structures in Wyoming by type. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.