Timeline of Cheyenne, Wyoming

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.

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19th century

• 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.
  • Cheyenne Leader newspaper begins publication.^[2]
  • November 13: Railroad begins operating.
• 1868 - City charter granted by Dakota Territory legislature.^[1]
• 1869
  • May 25: Wyoming Territory court in session.^[3]
  • Wyoming Tribune newspaper begins publication.^[2]
  • Fire.^[4]
  • Eagle Hotel in business.^[5]
  • Population: 2,305.^[6]
• 1870
  • On September 14, 1870, the signature of General Grenville M. Dodge on the Original City Plat of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, was notarized.^[7]
  • On September 21, 1870, at 10:30 AM, the Cheyenne Original City Plat was recorded by Laramie County Clerk.^[8]
• 1872
  • Stock Association of Laramie County organized.^[9]
  • Court House built.^[10]
• 1873 - November: Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Territory in session.^[11]
• 1874 - City Hall built.^[10]
• 1876
  • Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage begins operating.^[12]
  • Population: 3,250 (estimate).^[13]
• 1881 - Joseph M. Carey becomes mayor.
• 1882 - Opera House built.^[10][14]
• 1884 - William Sturgis House (residence) built.
• 1885 - Francis E. Warren becomes mayor.
• 1886
  • Library opens on Carey Avenue.^[15]
  • St. Mark's Episcopal Church built.
• 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.^[16]
• 1892 - Tivoli Building constructed.
• 1895 - Wyoming State Museum established.^[17]
• 1897 - Cheyenne Frontier Days begin.

20th century

• 1900 - Population: 14,087.^[16]
• 1902 - Laramie County Library opens.^[15]
• 1903 - May: Theodore Roosevelt visits Cheyenne.^[18]
• 1904 - Wyoming Governor's Mansion built.^[19]
• 1908 - Atlas Theatre opens.
• 1909 - St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral consecrated.
• 1910 - Population: 11,320.^[16]
• 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]
• 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.
• 1999 - City website online (approximate date).^[27]

21st century

• 2000 - Taco John's Events Center opens.
• 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

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Laramie County, Wyoming
• Timeline of Wyoming^[32]

References

1. "History of Cheyenne". City of Cheyenne. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
2. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
3. Federal Writers' Project 1941.
4. Appleton 1883.
5. Progressive men of the state of Wyoming, Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1903
6. Marie Erwin (1974). Wyoming Historical Blue Book (reprint ed.).
7. "Laramie County Assessor’s Office scanned image of Original City Plat, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2014.
8. "Laramie County Assessor’s Office scanned image of Original City Plat, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2014.
9. "Wyoming and the West Collections". Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
10. Polk 1884.
11. "New York Times". November 8, 1873.
12. Annie D. Tallent (1899), The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs, St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Print. Co.
13. The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada (3rd ed.), London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1876
14. Jeffery's guide and directory to the opera houses, theatres, public halls, bill posters, etc. of the cities and towns of America. 1889.
15. "Library History". Laramie County Library System. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
16. Britannica 1910.
17. "Wyoming State Museum". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
18. "The President in Cheyenne; Rides to Speaker's Stand and Speaks in Slouch Hat, Boots, Spurs, and Gauntlets". New York Times. June 1, 1903.
19. "National Register of Historic Places Database". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
20. "History of Cheyenne". City of Cheyenne. Archived from the original on February 12, 2003.
21. Popular Mechanics Magazine, June 1921
22. "History". Cheyenne, Wyo.: Wyoming Taxpayers Association.
23. "Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
24. "Cheyenne Botanic Gardens". Retrieved March 29, 2013.
25. 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.
26. United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
27. "City of Cheyenne, Wyoming". Archived from the original on November 1999 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
28. "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
29. "Arts Alliance leaders try to find place for fledgling group". Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. April 7, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
30. "World’s Most Powerful Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up". Time. Time Inc. October 17, 2012.
31. "About". Arts Cheyenne. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
32. Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 441: "Chronology"

Bibliography

• 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 Resports 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.
• "Cheyenne", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Federal Writers' Project (1941), Wyoming: a Guide to Its History, Highways and People, American Guide Series – via Google Books
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Cheyenne, Wyoming", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
• "Rocky Mountains: Wyoming: Cheyenne", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M

External links

• Wyoming State Newspaper Project. Items related to Cheyenne
• Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne
• Items related to Cheyenne, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
• Materials related to Cheyenne, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress).
• Materials related to Cheyenne, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photos Division)

Coordinates: 41°08′44″N 104°48′07″W / 41.145556°N 104.801944°W