This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 23 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 April 5, 2024.[2]
| Albany - Big Horn - Campbell - Carbon - Converse - Crook - Fremont - Goshen - Hot Springs - Johnson - Laramie - Lincoln - Natrona - Niobrara - Park - Platte - Sheridan - Sublette - Sweetwater - Teton - Uinta - Washakie - Weston |
Current listings
| [3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[4] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Legion Hall, Post 32 |  |
June 27, 2014 (#14000386) |
130 N. 5th St. 44°29′26″N 108°03′15″W / 44.490521°N 108.054138°W | Greybull | Meeting hall significant as a key gathering place in Greybull 1935–1959 for a panoply of social clubs and organizations, as well as civic use as a polling place and overflow classroom for the public schools.[5] |
| 2 | Bad Pass Trail |  |
October 29, 1975 (#75000215) |
East of Lovell along the Bighorn River 44°56′00″N 108°15′00″W / 44.933333°N 108.25°W | Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area | Remnants of a cairn-marked trail between the Bighorn Basin and the northern plains, established by Native Americans in antiquity and used by their descendents and mountain men into the mid-1830s. Extends into Carbon County, Montana.[6] |
| 3 | Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building |  |
July 19, 1976 (#76001948) |
409 W. C St. 44°22′51″N 108°02′23″W / 44.380875°N 108.039636°W | Basin | Newspaper office with vintage equipment, active 1924–1974 printing the continuation of the Bighorn Basin's first newspaper, established in 1889 by Joseph Newton DeBarthe—a key record of local history.[7] |
| 4 | Bear Creek Ranch Medicine Wheel | May 4, 1987 (#87000661) |
Address restricted[8] | Greybull | ||
| 5 | Big Horn Academy Historic District |  |
March 26, 1992 (#92000285) |
25 and 35 E. 1st S. 44°52′57″N 108°28′06″W / 44.882456°N 108.468398°W | Cowley | The Bighorn Basin's first high school and a long-serving community venue, with a 1916 classroom building initially constructed as a Mormon parochial boarding school, and a 1936 gymnasium funded by the Works Progress Administration.[9] |
| 6 | Black Mountain Archeological District | July 2, 1987 (#86003459) |
Summit and southeastern slopes of Black Mountain[10] 44°31′24″N 107°39′42″W / 44.523333°N 107.661667°W | Shell | Two chert quarries, six rock shelters, and three campsites spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods.[11] | |
| 7 | Bridger Immigrant Road-Dry Creek Crossing | January 17, 1975 (#75001900) |
26 miles east of Cody on U.S. Route 14 44°27′40″N 108°31′48″W / 44.461096°N 108.530059°W | Cody vicinity | Still-visible fragment of a wagon route blazed by Jim Bridger in 1864 for gold rush miners to reach Virginia City, Montana; an alternative to the more direct but riskier Bozeman Trail.[12] | |
| 8 | Carey Block |  |
December 18, 2009 (#09001110) |
602 Greybull Ave. 44°29′21″N 108°03′20″W / 44.489115°N 108.055554°W | Greybull | Prominent and architecturally sophisticated 1916 commercial building with a 1933 car dealership and repair shop addition, encapsulating Greybull's oil boom prosperity and later diversification through auto tourism.[13] |
| 9 | EJE Bridge over Shell Creek |  |
February 22, 1985 (#85000415) |
County Road CN9-57 44°32′05″N 107°48′08″W / 44.534676°N 107.802305°W | Shell | Wyoming's longest Warren pony truss bridge, built 1920, exemplifying an early Warren variation.[14] Removed and replaced in 2005.[citation needed] |
| 10 | EJP County Line Bridge |  |
February 22, 1985 (#85000412) |
Road CN9-60 44°09′59″N 107°41′02″W / 44.166441°N 107.684005°W | Hyattville | 1917 camelback pony truss bridge, Wyoming's longest, and its only road bridge jointly funded by two counties, on the mistaken belief that it crossed a county boundary.[14] |
| 11 | EJZ Bridge over Shoshone River |  |
February 22, 1985 (#85000413) |
County Road CN9-111 44°50′18″N 108°26′05″W / 44.838253°N 108.434838°W | Lovell | Distinctive four-span example (built 1925–26) of the Warren pony truss bridges commissioned by the Wyoming Highway Department in the 1920s and 1930s.[14] |
| 12 | Hanson Site | December 15, 1978 (#78002817) |
Address restricted[8] | Shell vicinity | Paleo-Indian camping ground on either side of an arroyo, with extensive evidence of stone tool manufacturing, fires, animal bone fragments, and Folsom tradition lodges.[15] | |
| 13 | Hyart Theater |  |
January 8, 2009 (#08001304) |
251 E. Main St. 44°50′16″N 108°23′17″W / 44.837812°N 108.388134°W | Lovell | One of Wyoming's few intact early-1950s movie theaters, built with state-of-the-art features in 1950.[16] |
| 14 | Lower Shell School House |  |
February 7, 1985 (#85000247) |
U.S. Route 14 44°31′16″N 107°56′06″W / 44.52124°N 107.934897°W | Greybull | 1903 one-room school, one of Wyoming's few intact examples of the once-essential facilities built to provide education and community meeting space in frontier communities.[17] |
| 15 | M L Ranch |  |
July 15, 1992 (#92000836) |
Off Alternate U.S. Route 14 near the eastern shore of Bighorn Lake 44°49′46″N 108°09′34″W / 44.829444°N 108.159444°W | Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area | Four surviving buildings of an 1883 ranch, associated with Henry Clay Lovell (1838–1903) and the development of open range cattle ranching in the Bighorn Basin in 1880s and 1890s. Now an interpretive site.[18] |
| 16 | Medicine Lodge Creek Site |  |
July 5, 1973 (#73001926) |
4800 County Road 52 44°17′57″N 107°32′28″W / 44.2991°N 107.5411°W | Hyattville vicinity | Sheltered wintering site with rock art and 12 habitation layers spanning from 8300 years ago to the early contact period.[19] Preserved and interpreted as Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site. |
| 17 | Medicine Wheel-Medicine Mountain |  |
April 16, 1969 (#69000184) |
Near the summit of Medicine Mountain[20] 44°49′34″N 107°55′18″W / 44.826111°N 107.921667°W | Kane vicinity | Significant and well-preserved Native American sacred complex in use for at least 7000 years, comprising a 75-foot-diameter (23 m) medicine wheel, archaeological sites, and traditional use areas.[21] |
| 18 | Paint Rock Canyon Archeological Landscape District | July 12, 1990 (#80004881) |
Address restricted[8] | Hyattville vicinity | Largely undeveloped canyonland with rock shelters and campsites spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods.[22] | |
| 19 | Rairden Bridge |  |
February 22, 1985 (#85000414) |
Adjacent to Rairden Ln. over the Bighorn River 44°11′39″N 107°54′55″W / 44.194129°N 107.915403°W | Manderson vicinity | The longest single-span truss bridge ever built by a Wyoming county, and one of the state's only two remaining pin-connected Pennsylvania trusses. Erected in 1916 and abandoned in place in 1979.[14] |
| 20 | Shell Community Hall | January 3, 2022 (#100007266) |
201 Smith Ave. 44°32′08″N 107°46′42″W / 44.535573°N 107.77841°W | Shell | Municipal event venue built 1933–34 with Civil Works Administration funding, exemplifying the enduring benefit of New Deal programs for small Wyoming communities.[23] | |
| 21 | Southsider Shelter | August 1, 2012 (#12000470) |
Address restricted[8] | Ten Sleep vicinity | Rock shelter with five well-stratified occupation layers spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods, illuminating the area's chronology of projectile points and early subsistence strategies.[24] | |
| 22 | US Post Office-Basin Main |  |
May 19, 1987 (#87000779) |
402 W. C St. 44°22′53″N 108°02′22″W / 44.381454°N 108.039409°W | Basin | Exemplary small Neoclassical post office, built in 1919 to complete Basin's civic square during the city's peak period of growth.[25] |
| 23 | US Post Office-Greybull Main |  |
May 22, 1987 (#87000780) |
401 Greybull Ave. 44°29′19″N 108°03′10″W / 44.488612°N 108.052889°W | Greybull | 1939 post office, one of five in Wyoming with Section of Painting and Sculpture artwork, symbolizing the extensive New Deal public works and federal presence benefiting small communities.[26] |
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Wyoming
References
- ^ The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved April 5, 2024.
- ^ Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ Linse, Paul (2014-05-22). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: American Legion Hall, Post 32. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
- ^ Mackenzie, George C. (1974-08-01). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Bad Pass Trail. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ^ Junge, Mark (1975-01-09). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Basin Republican–Rustler Printing Building. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ^ a b c d Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
- ^ Hinckley, Franklin T.; Rheba Massey (1991-11-27). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Big Horn Academy Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ Finley, Judson B., et al. "Rockshelter Archaeology and Geoarchaeology in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming". Plains Anthropologist 50.195 (2005): 227-248: 228.
- ^ "Black Mountain Archaeological District". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ Frost, Ned M. (1973-05-17). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Bridger Immigrant Road - Dry Creek Crossing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ^ Bradley, Betsy H. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Carey Block (PDF) (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ a b c d Fraser, Clayton B. (1982-05-24). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
- ^ "The Hanson Site". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
- ^ Weidel, Nancy (2008-10-16). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: The Hyart Theater. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ^ McGough, John J. (April 1984). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Lower Shell School House. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ Gordon, Paul; Kathy McCraney (1992-03-05). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: M L Ranch. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ^ "Medicine Lodge Creek Site". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ Grinnell, George Bird. "The Medicine Wheel". American Anthropologist 24.3 (1922): 299-310: 304.
- ^ "Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ^ "Paint Rock Canyon Archaeological Landscape". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ^ Hayes, Bill; Lisa Anderson (2020-08-10). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Shell Community Hall (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ^ "Southsider Shelter". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ^ Kolva, H. J. "Jim" (April 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Basin Main Post Office. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ^ Kolva, H. J. "Jim" (April 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Greybull Main Post Office. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-04-10.