HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE COWBOY STATE Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan 2016–2026 Front cover images (left to right, top to bottom): Doll House, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne. Photograph by Melissa Robb. Downtown Buffalo. Photograph by Richard Collier Moulton barn on Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park. Photograph by Richard Collier. Aladdin General Store. Photograph by Richard Collier. Wyoming State Capitol Building. Photograph by Richard Collier. Crooked Creek Stone Circle Site. Photograph by Danny Walker. Ezra Meeker marker on the Oregon Trail. Photograph by Richard Collier. The Green River Drift. Photograph by Jonita Sommers. Legend Rock Petroglyph Site. Photograph by Richard Collier. Ames Monument. Photograph by Richard Collier. Back cover images (left to right): Saint Stephen’s Mission Church. Photograph by Richard Collier. South Pass City. Photograph by Richard Collier. The Wyoming Theatre, Torrington. Photograph by Melissa Robb. Plan produced in house by sta at low cost. HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE COWBOY STATE Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan 2016–2026 Matthew H. Mead, Governor Director, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources Milward Simpson Administrator, Division of Cultural Resources Sara E. Needles State Historic Preservation Ocer Mary M. Hopkins Compiled and Edited by: Judy K. Wolf Chief, Planning and Historic Context Development Program Published by: e Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources Wyoming State Historic Preservation Oce Barrett Building 2301 Central Avenue Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 City County Building (Casper - Natrona County), a Public Works Administration project. Photograph by Richard Collier. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................................5 Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................6 Letter from Governor Matthew H. Mead ..................................................................................................7 Message from the State Historic Preservation Ocer ................................................................................8 Mission Statement ....................................................................................................................................9 Vision for Historic Preservation in Wyoming .........................................................................................10 Why Preserve? .........................................................................................................................................11 Foreword .................................................................................................................................................13 I. Overview of State History ...................................................................................................................17 Prehistoric Period .............................................................................................................................17 Historic Period .................................................................................................................................21 II. e Planning Process ..........................................................................................................................27 Methodology .....................................................................................................................................27 How the Plan Will Be Updated .........................................................................................................28 III. Historic Preservation Challenges .......................................................................................................29 Historic Preservation Challenge 1: Increase public education and outreach eorts ............................29 Historic Preservation Challenge 2: Strengthen historic preservation programs and initiatives to augment existing preservation eorts .............................................................................29 Historic Preservation Challenge 3: Preserve and protect cultural resources from the impacts of energy development, population growth, and sprawl ..................................................30 Historic Preservation Challenge 4: Strengthen local community capabilities to identify, evaluate, nominate, protect and interpret historic and cultural resources ..............................31 Historic Preservation Challenge 5: Identify and protect cultural landscapes ......................................31 Historic Preservation Challenge 6: Strengthen site stewardship, artifact curation, and record preservation capabilities ...................................................................................................32 Historic Preservation Challenge 7: Unify heritage tourism eorts between agencies at a statewide level .............................................................................................................................32 Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan 2016–2026 1 IV. Programs, Goals, and Strategies .........................................................................................................34 National Register of Historic Places Program ....................................................................................34 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................35 National Register Program Goals and Strategies ..........................................................................36 Planning and Historic Context Development Program......................................................................37 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................39 Planning and Historic Context Development Program Goals and Strategies ...............................42 Cultural Records Program .................................................................................................................42 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................44 Cultural Records Program Goals and Strategies ...........................................................................44 Review and Federal Consultation Program ........................................................................................45 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................46 Review and Federal Consultation Program Goals and Strategies ..................................................46 Certied Local Government Program ...............................................................................................48 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................48 Certied Local Government Program Goals and Strategies ..........................................................49 Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Incentives Program .....................................................................49 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................50 Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Incentives Program Goals and Strategies ...............................51 Education and Outreach Programs ....................................................................................................51 Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month ..........................................................................................51 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................52 Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month Goals and Strategies ...................................................53 Wyoming Archaeology Education and Outreach Plan .......................................................................53 Centennial Farm and Ranch Program ...............................................................................................55 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................55 Centennial Farm and Ranch Program Goals and Strategies .........................................................56 Wyoming Site Stewardship Program ..................................................................................................56 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................57 Wyoming Site Stewardship Program Goals and Strategies ............................................................57 Monuments and Markers Program ....................................................................................................58 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan ...........................................................59 Monuments and Markers Program Goals and Strategies ..............................................................59 2 Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan 2016–2026 Oce of the Wyoming State Archaeologist .......................................................................................61 Progress in Meeting Goals Identied in the Previous Plan