Historic Preservation
Our communities are steeped in historical places and sites. Historic Preservation is highly valued by our community. Sheridan County is rich in history with many buildings, facades, and other historically significant sites. Preservation is a physical reminder of a shared past and plays a critical role in defining and reinforcing our unique Wyoming identity as well as providing visual enjoyment. We believe that the stories of Sheridan County’s rich history is one worth telling and it is important that the next generation knows those stories. We seek out and complete projects that either interpret or protect historic sites.
What is a Historic Preservation Easement?
An historic preservation easement is an agreement between an owner and a land trust that puts restrictions on the types of renovations that can be made on an historic building. This easement prevents construction that changes the historic integrity of a historically significant building. SCLT has protected two iconic structures the Sheridan Inn and the Doc Huson homestead in Clear Creek Valley
Read more about our Historic Preservation Easements!
Sheridan Inn
The Sheridan Inn is a historical treasure to Sheridan, Wyoming and the building represents a rich local history and western legends. The Sheridan Inn is the first historical easement in the State of Wyoming.
Doc Huson
Preserving land, history east of Sheridan Conserved land and historic preservation working together in Sheridan County. In 2015, previous landowners Mark and Kim Tenneson celebrated a conservation easement and historical preservation easement to protect the land, the homestead, and the rich history that comes with it.
Our Other Projects:
Monarch Bridge
The Monarch Lutheran Cemetery Preservation Project utilized volunteers to provide a little TLC to the historic cemetery while documenting marked and unmarked graves on the site.
Mandel Cabin
The Monarch Lutheran Cemetery Preservation Project utilized volunteers to provide a little TLC to the historic cemetery while documenting marked and unmarked graves on the site.
The Star Man of Sheridan College by Sue Simonich, Museum of Discovery Mohns Center at Sheridan College
Color photo of the Mohns Center circa 1982, courtesy of the Wyoming Room, Sheridan Fulmer Library, Sheridan Wyoming. For over seventy years, Sheridan College has been the mecca of learning for north central Wyoming. Developed as an agricultural junior college in the rich farming territory of Big Goose Valley, its development over the years was [...]
Iron Riders Trail Driving/Cycling Tour
Follow the route taken by the Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps in 1897 when they traveled through Sheridan County on their way from Fort Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri.
History on the Soldier Ridge Trail – A Walking Tour
Follow in the footsteps, hoofprints, and stagecoach tracks of history while getting outdoors with History on the Soldier Ridge Trail.
Monarch Lutheran Cemetery
The Monarch Lutheran Cemetery Preservation Project utilized volunteers to provide a little TLC to the historic cemetery while documenting marked and unmarked graves on the site.
Historic Preservation Tools
Interested in how historic properties, structures, sites, and spaces can be preserved today so they aren’t forgotten tomorrow? Hanbury Preservation Consulting has provided the Historic Preservation Tools for Wyoming report which has a broad range of preservation tools that can work well in Wyoming.
History and Culture of the Bighorn Mountains
Three interpretive signs will notate the history and the heritage of the Plains Indian Tribes to the Bighorn Mountains. In the summer of 2021 the signs will be place along SCLT trails.
Human Migration of Southeastern Sheridan County
Human Migration of Southeastern Sheridan County explores how the human migration process has changed the characteristics of the landscape through the themes of nomadic, the horse, water, and settlement.
Throw Back Thursdays #TBT
Throw Back Thursdays #TBT is a weekly social media post that highlights elements from current SCLT historical projects and to announce upcoming historical activities.
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