National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson
Location of Johnson County in Wyoming
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Wyoming. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.[1]
There are 28 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 1 of which is a National Historic Landmark.
A rare and well-preserved example of a 20th-century sheep ranch employing Spanish and French Basque practices, with nine contributing properties built 1916–1950s.[6]
Western-themed motor court with free-standing log cabins, whose modernizations 1941–1967 reflect the heyday of post-World War II automobile tourism in Wyoming.[7]
Site of an Army supply post 1876–1878 during U.S. military campaigns against the High Plains Indians, a vestige of the bitter intercultural conflict over the resources and lifestyle of the region.[8]
1909 Carnegie library, exemplifying Neoclassical architecture and the local zeal to provide library services while still less than a decade into Wyoming's statehood.[9] Became the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in 1987.[10]
Site of the Dull Knife Fight on November 25, 1876—an Army attack on a winter village of Northern Cheyenne, a consequential point in the U.S. campaign to force the Plains Indians onto reservations.[11]
At 200 feet (61 m) Wyoming's longest single span of a county bridge still in use, and one of only two pin-connected Pennsylvania trusses. Built in 1913 and moved to current location in 1963.[5]
Frontier U.S. Army fort with some preserved buildings, active 1878–1894; the key military presence in the Powder River Basin from the American Indian Wars to the Johnson County War, and attractor of agricultural settlement as both a protector and customer. Since 1903 the Veterans' Home of Wyoming.[12]
Sites of a partially reconstructed U.S. Army fort, the Fetterman Fight, and the Wagon Box Fight—storied locations in Red Cloud's War 1866–1868, which resulted in renewed Native control of the region for several years.[13]
Site of a U.S. Army fort manned 1865–1868 to protect emigrants on the Bozeman Trail from vigorous Oglala defense of their sacred hunting grounds. Marked with a monument and interpretive signs.[14]
1890s cattle ranch diversified into a dude ranch in 1911, a continuously operating example of an important regional enterprise that enriched the American West economically and culturally, and highlighted the need to preserve the west's recreational resources and traditions.[15]
One of Buffalo's first brick houses, built in 1883 for rancher and county official William H. Holland (1840–1906) and later the home of his grandson William C. Holland (d. 1993), attorney and politician.[16]
Site in a natural passage between the Bighorn Mountains and Powder River basin yielding artifacts from the middle Plains Archaic to the Protohistoric period, including a hearth, bundle of gambling sticks, and rock art.[18]
One of Wyoming's most distinctive and intact commercial centers representing the prosperity achieved through ranching, agriculture, tourism, and mineral extraction; with 12 contributing properties built 1900–1932.[21]
One of Wyoming's leading examples of Gothic Revival architecture, an 1889 church whose original members were key figures in Buffalo's and Johnson County's early history.[24]
One of the longest operating dude ranches in the Bighorn Mountains, established in 1923. Also noted for its rustic architecture, with a unique lodge shaped like the ranch's brand and eight other contributing properties.[25]
Long-serving social and civic center of a dispersed ranching community, built in 1914 as a post office, grocery store, and dance hall, and entirely an event venue and polling place since the 1920s.[26]
One of Johnson County's first cattle ranches, established in 1882, and the best preserved site from the 1889–1893 Johnson County War, with extant breastworks and battle damage from a three-day siege in April 1892.[27]
Ford and campsite on the Bozeman Trail, site of one of the trail's most dramatic battles between the U.S. military and Native Americans, on July 20, 1866, and a U.S. staging point during the Great Sioux War of 1876.[28] Marked with interpretive signs.
1886 church altered and enlarged 1911–12, with a 1910 parsonage. One of the first two churches established in northern Wyoming Territory; significant as the only venue for refined or family-friendly activities in a rough pioneer community.[29]
Well-preserved example of a Neoclassical combined post office and federal building, completed in 1928; a long-sought amenity and validation of Buffalo's importance.[30]
^The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
^Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
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