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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 – Downtown Buildings
With the Third Thursday street festivals in full swing, we thought we would encourage everyone this #tbt to take a moment during the festivities to stand in the middle of Main Street, look up, and appreciate the history written on the buildings downtown. While many downtown buildings have architectural flourishes and oddities, some [...]
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 [...]
The Places That Hold Our History
TBT – Stagecoach Routes – Community Service Routes
On this #TBT, we highlight Sheridan County’s historic community service stagecoach routes. The information comes from a sign created by the Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission and placed On Beaver Creek Road (Sheridan County 87), between Big Horn and the junction with Wyoming 331. During the 1880s, as Sheridan County was settled and railroads [...]
TBT – Stagecoach Routes – Big Horn Blacksmith Shop
On this #TBT, we highlight the historic Big Horn Blacksmith Shop. The information comes from a sign created by the Sheridan County Historic Preservation Commission and placed near the intersection of Johnson and Creighton Streets. Big Horn grew up as one of the main communities along the stage route in Sheridan County. The first [...]
TBT – Stagecoach Routes
For this #TBT we will start a series following the historic stagecoach routes in Sheridan County from 1878 to 1894. The routes and history of the cross-county stage roads were determined by the railroads from the beginning. The route began as a connection between Rock Creek, Wyoming, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and the [...]
The Events That Tell Our History
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