Big Goose Creek Walking Tour

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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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2023-11-30T10:07:21-07:00

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 [...]

2023-11-30T10:26:42-07:00

TBT – South Park – 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 are putting in at the head of the trail at South Park, where we will learn about Dr. Delilah Turner Sprague Babcock Sonnesberger. Dr. Sonnesberger arrived in Sheridan in 1883. She moved [...]

2023-11-30T10:40:49-07:00

TBT – Richard Throssel

On this #TBT, we focus on a pioneering photographer who documented the early days of the Crow Reservation. In 1868, the Crow sold around 30 million acres of their 1851 territory and agreed to live in a reservation. The reservation is in parts of Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Treasure counties in southern Montana. Previously, though, the Crow were in [...]

2024-03-14T14:50:13-06:00

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 [...]

2024-02-27T11:43:28-07:00

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 [...]

2024-02-27T11:52:08-07:00

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 [...]

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