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Weston County Courthouse. / 43.85778°N 104.20250°W / 43.85778; -104.20250. The Weston County Courthouse in Newcastle, Wyoming, was designed by Charles A. Randall and built in 1910–11. The Beaux-Arts style courthouse is the most elaborate building in Newcastle, and a symbol of the community's prosperity at the time of its construction.
Weston County was created by the legislature of the Wyoming Territory on March 12, 1890, of land partitioned from Crook County. [3] Weston County was named for John Weston, a geologist and surveyor. [4] In 1887, Jefferson Weston and Frank Mondell found rich coal deposits north of Newcastle which caused a railroad to be built through the area.
Campbell County was created in 1911 from land annexed from Crook and Weston Counties. [3] It was named either for John Allen Campbell, a governor of the Wyoming Territory, or for Robert Campbell, a trapper and fur trader associated with William Henry Ashley. [4]
Washakie County was created on February 21, 1911, as Hanover County with land detached from Big Horn County and organized in 1913. [3] The bill for creating the county initially named it "Hanover County", but it was renamed before the bill passed to Washakie County for the head chief of the Shoshone people, Chief Washakie, who became an ally of the US Government.
Parts of Sheridan County, Johnson County, and Fremont County. Big Horn Mountains, a mountain range extending into northern Wyoming: 12,018: 3,137 sq mi (8,125 km 2) Campbell County: 005: Gillette: 1911: Parts of Weston County and Crook County. John Allen Campbell (1835–80), first governor of the Wyoming Territory (1869–75) 47,498: 4,797 sq ...
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Cambria Casino. Cambria Casino. November 18, 1980. ( #80004058) 23726 U.S. Route 85. 43°57′20″N 104°11′35″W. / 43.955556°N 104.193056°W / 43.955556; -104.193056 ( Cambria Casino) Newcastle. Large and finely crafted Tudor Revival resort lodge built in 1929 as a memorial to the coal mining town of Cambria, Wyoming.
Hannah Shields, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne. August 8, 2024 at 9:47 PM. CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Republican Party filed a lawsuit Thursday against Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee over a flawed ...