The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.
19th century
edit- 1867
- July 4: Union Pacific Railroad sets up mountain region headquarters at Crow Creek Crossing, later known as Cheyenne.
- August 10: H. M. Hook elected mayor.[1]
- Fort D.A. Russell established nearby.[2]
- Cheyenne Leader newspaper begins publication.[3]
- November 13: Railroad begins operating.
- 1868 - City charter granted by Dakota Territory legislature.[1][2]
- 1869
- 1870
- 1872
- Stock Association of Laramie County organized.[10]
- Court House built.[11]
- 1873 - November: Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory in session.[12]
- 1874 - City Hall built.[11]
- 1876
- 1881 - Joseph M. Carey becomes mayor.
- 1882 - Opera House built.[11][15]
- 1884 - William Sturgis House (residence) built.
- 1885 - Francis E. Warren becomes mayor.
- 1886
- Library opens on Carey Avenue.[16]
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church built.
- Cheyenne and Northern Railway operates from 1886 to 1890.
- 1887 - Cheyenne Depot built.
- 1888 - Nagle Warren Mansion (residence) built.
- 1890
- July 10: Cheyenne becomes capital of new state of Wyoming.
- Wyoming State Capitol building and First United Methodist Church constructed.
- Population: 11,690.[2]
- 1892 - Tivoli Building constructed.
- 1895 - Wyoming State Museum established.[17]
- 1896 - Cheyenne Business College established.
- 1897 - Cheyenne Frontier Days begin.
- 1900 - Population: 14,087.[2]
20th century
edit- 1902 - Laramie County Library opens.[16]
- 1903 - May: Theodore Roosevelt visits Cheyenne.[18]
- 1904 - Wyoming Governor's Mansion built.[19]
- 1905 - Population: 13,656.[2]
- 1908 - Atlas Theatre opens.
- 1909 - St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral consecrated.
- 1910 - Population: 11,320.[2]
- 1914 - City adopts commissioner form of government.[20]
- 1920 - Lincoln Highway surfaced near Cheyenne.[21]
- 1928 - High Plains Horticulture Research Station established.
- 1929 - Boeing Terminal built at Cheyenne Airport.
- 1930 - Cheyenne Little Theatre Players founded.
- 1937 - Wyoming Governmental Research Association headquartered in Cheyenne.[22]
- late 1940's - Union Pacific Big Boy an articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive, was assigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled freight over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming.
- 1952 - Cheyenne Genealogy Society formed.[23]
- 1960 - Cheyenne East High School established.
- 1968 - Laramie County Community College established.
- 1972 - City government changes to mayor-council format.[20]
- 1976 - New Wyoming Governor's Mansion built.
- 1977 - Cheyenne Community Solar Greenhouse[24] and Historic Governor's Mansion museum opens.[19]
- 1978 - Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum founded.
- 1979 - July 16: Tornado.[25]
- 1980 - Population: 47,283.[26]
- 1981 - Frontier Mall in business.
- 1993 - Cheyenne Depot Museum founded.
- 1999 - City website online (approximate date).[27][chronology citation needed]
- 2000 - Taco John's Events Center opens.
21st century
edit- 2009
- Rick Kaysen becomes mayor.[28]
- Cheyenne South High School opens.
- 2010
- Cheyenne Capidolls roller derby league formed.
- Population: 59,466.
- 2011 - Cheyenne Warriors football team and Arts Alliance of Cheyenne[29] formed.
- 2012 - National Center for Atmospheric Research-Wyoming Supercomputing Center begins operating.[30]
- 2013 - Arts Cheyenne organized (approximate date).[31]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "History of Cheyenne". City of Cheyenne. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ Appleton 1883.
- ^ Progressive men of the state of Wyoming, Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1903, OL 7201215M
- ^ Marie Erwin (1974). Wyoming Historical Blue Book (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-09.
- ^ "Laramie County Assessor's Office scanned image of Original City Plat, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2014.
- ^ "Laramie County Assessor's Office scanned image of Original City Plat, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2014.
- ^ "Wyoming and the West Collections". Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ a b c Polk 1884.
- ^ "New York Times". November 8, 1873.
- ^ Annie D. Tallent (1899), The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs, St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Print. Co., OL 23281865M
- ^ The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada (3rd ed.), London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1876
- ^ Jeffery, John B. (1889). Jeffery's guide and directory to the opera houses, theatres, public halls, bill posters, etc. of the cities and towns of America.
- ^ a b "Library History". Laramie County Library System. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "Wyoming State Museum". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "The President in Cheyenne; Rides to Speaker's Stand and Speaks in Slouch Hat, Boots, Spurs, and Gauntlets", New York Times, June 1, 1903
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Database". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ a b "History of Cheyenne". City of Cheyenne. Archived from the original on February 12, 2003.
- ^ Windsor, Henry Haven (June 1921), Popular Mechanics Magazine
- ^ "History". Cheyenne, Wyo.: Wyoming Taxpayers Association.
- ^ "Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "Cheyenne Botanic Gardens". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ Thomas E. Drabek; et al. (1981). "After the Wind: The Emergent Multiorganizational Search and Rescue Network Following the Cheyenne, Wyoming Tornado of July, 1979". Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 9.
- ^ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "City of Cheyenne, Wyoming". Archived from the original on 1999-11-28 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "Arts Alliance leaders try to find place for fledgling group". Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. April 7, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "World's Most Powerful Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up". Time. Time Inc. October 17, 2012.
- ^ "About". Arts Cheyenne. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
Bibliography
edit- Mrs. Frank Leslie (1877), "(Cheyenne)", California: a pleasure trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, April, May, June, 1877, New York: G.W. Carleton & Co. Publishers
- "Cheyenne", The American Cyclopaedia, New York: D. Appleton, 1883
- "Cheyenne", The Pacific Tourist: an Illustrated Guide to Pacific RR, California, and Pleasure Resorts across the Continent, New York: Adams & Bishop, 1884
- "Cheyenne City". Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory. Chicago: Polk & Co. and A.C. Danser. 1884.
- "Cheyenne". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888. 1889.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 116.
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), Wyoming: a Guide to Its History, Highways and People, American Guide Series, ISBN 9781603540490 – via Google Books
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Cheyenne, Wyoming", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
- "Rocky Mountains: Wyoming: Cheyenne", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
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