6 markers in the database.
Gillette, WY
In the coal and cattle country of northeastern Wyoming, this memorial honors the young men and women of Campbell County who died in the nation's service. The inscription speaks not of any one war but of duty, honor, and the price of freedom paid across generations. It stands for a rural community determined that its own be remembered.
Gillette, WY
Erected in 1955 by the local VFW Auxiliary, this memorial gathers the names of Campbell County's war dead across three conflicts of the 20th century — World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. In a sparsely populated corner of northeastern Wyoming, each name represented a substantial loss to a small ranching community. The monument reflects a mid-century wave of civic remembrance following two world wars and Korea.
Laramie County, WY
Built between 1885 and 1888, these brick officer's quarters replaced the original wood buildings at what was then a frontier army post in Wyoming. Nicknamed "The Doll Houses," they date from the era when the U.S. Army maintained garrisons across the West to support settlement and railroad expansion. The substantial masonry construction signaled the post's permanence as the frontier era waned.
Laramie County, WY
This interpretive marker traces the decline of the Union Pacific Railroad's dominance after World War II, as the growing Interstate Highway System and commercial aviation drew away passengers and freight. Cheyenne and southeastern Wyoming had grown up as railroad country, making the shift keenly felt here.
Albany County, WY
This plaque memorializes the 66 people killed when a United Airlines airliner struck Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming's Snowy Range on October 6, 1955. At the time it was among the deadliest commercial aviation disasters in United States history, and it helped spur scrutiny of air-safety practices in the booming postwar airline era. The rugged high-country crash site remains a place of remembrance for the victims.
Bar Nunn, WY
This marker recalls Wardwell Field, Natrona County's airport from 1927 to 1952, in the early decades of American commercial and airmail aviation. So thoroughly has the town of Bar Nunn grown over the old airfield that its former runways survive as ordinary streets—Sunset Boulevard, Trail End, and Palomino Avenue still trace where aircraft once landed. The marker preserves the memory of Wyoming's aviation infrastructure hiding in plain sight beneath a residential grid.