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Throw Back Thursdays #TBT is a weekly social media post that tells local historical stories, highlights elements from current SCLT historical projects, and/or announces upcoming historical activities.
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The People Who Shaped Our History
TBT – Dana Ave. – Tongue River Water Trail
For this #TBT, we continue our journey down the Tongue River Water Trail, checking out SCLT’s recently installed signs which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. Come ashore with us at Dana Avenue to learn about the history of Thorne Rider Park. Thorne-Rider Stadium was established after Count Frederic Thorne-Rider tuned into a [...]
TBT – West Works St. – Tongue River Water Trail
For this #TBT, we continue our journey down the Tongue River Water Trail, checking out SCLT’s recently installed signs which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. After some slow meanders around the looping oxbows of Big Goose Creek, we find ourselves at the footbridge on West Works St. Henry Held homesteaded this area [...]
TBT – Leopard Street – Tongue River Water Trail
Recently, SCLT installed signs along the Tongue River Water Trail which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. On this #TBT, we launch at our farthest point upstream on Big Goose at Leopard Street. Just three miles west of Sheridan along Big Goose Creek was a farm called K.N. Garden. The owners of the [...]
The Places That Hold Our History
TBT – Stagecoach Routes – Bingham Post Office and Stage Station
On this #TBT, we continue exploring the historic stage roads of Sheridan County through a series of signs created by the Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission. This sign, “Bingham Post Office and Stage Station,” was placed on the north side of US Highway 14 about halfway between Ranchester and Dayton. It no longer stands. [...]
TBT – Stagecoach Routes – Mail Routes and Service
On this #TBT, we continue our exploration of the historic stage roads of Sheridan County. This week’s post comes from a sign originally placed by the Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission at Keystone Road and South Dry Creek a decade ago. This segment of the Rock Creek to Montana stage road between the Union [...]
TBT – Stagecoach Routes – Rock Creek to Montana State Line
On this #TBT, we highlight the historic Rock Creek to Montana stage line. The information comes from a sign created by the Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission and placed near the intersection of Keystone Road and Soldier Creek Road. Beginning in July 1878, the U.S. Postal Service awarded contracts to stage lines to operate [...]
The Events That Tell Our History
TBT – Skirmish at Tongue River Heights
On this #TBT, we remember the often overlooked skirmish at Tongue River Heights. On Friday, June 9, 1876, Brig. Gen. George Crook’s Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition had been camped in a stand of cottonwood trees at the confluence of Tongue River and Prairie Dog Creek for two days. Waiting for the return of [...]
TBT – Sibley Scouts
On this #TBT, we look to the Bighorn Mountains and imagine a fast-moving, three-day game of cat and mouse across steep, rocky terrain. This was the experience of a group known as the Sibley Scouts. The peace achieved by 1868’s Fort Laramie Treaty was broken as a rush of prospectors flooded into Indian [...]
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