History and Directory of Laramie City Wyoming Territory

Laramie City is situated on the east bank of the Big Laramie River, one mile below the crossing of the old California Emigrant Road of 1849, and seven miles below the crossing of the Overland Mail and Stage road, and near the center of the Laramie Plains, a beautiful plain, or park, comprising two million acres of land, entirely surrounded by two spurs of the Rocky Mountains; on the eastern half circle by the range of the Black Hills, and on the western by the Medicine Bow range.

It is also situated on and near the center of the line of our great national highway, the Union Pacific Railroad, and has a settled population of two thousand six hundred and ninety-eight (2698), as shown by a census taken February, 1875.

It is the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming Territory.

• A Brief History of Laramie City (top of this page)

• First Settlement to the Present Time

• Governement

• Vigilance Committees

• Present City Government

• Leading Citizens

  • Henry B. Rumsey

  • Charles W. Bramel

  • C. S. Dunbar

  • George W. Fox

  • A. G. Swain

• Public Schools

• Churches

• First Child Born in Laramie

• Laramie City Civic Organizations

  • Library and Literary Association

  • A.F. and A. M Lodge

  • I.O.O.F. Lodge

  • I.O.G.T. Lodge

  • Sons of Temperance

• Laramie City ~ County Seat

• Union Pacific Railroad

• Water Supply

• Union Pacific Railroad Rolling Mills

• Laramie City As a Health Resort

• Press ~ Exemptions ~ Female Suffrage

  • The Laramie Daily Sentinel

  • Laramie Daily Independent

  • Exemptions

  • Female Suffrage

• Characteristics ~ Climate ~ Agriculture ~ & More

  • Altitude and Climate

  • Scenery

  • Grazing and Agriculture

  • Lime, Building Stone and Gypsum

  • Plumbago and Kaolin

  • Coal and Iron

• Portion of the Mining Region of the Black Hills

• What Should be the Policy of the National Government?

• Future of the Rocky Mountains

• Official Directory of Laramie City

• General and Business Directory of Laramie City

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