Laramie’s Living History — Places
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.'
Towns in Albany County have come and gone with Laramie being the county seat and major population center.
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Historic Fort Sanders is gone but a few reminders are left
If it hadn’t been for Grace Raymond Hebard, University of Wyoming’s first librarian and a Board of Trustees member, hardly anything would be left today to mark the location of Fort Sanders three miles south of Laramie. This military outpost was authorized by the U.S. Department of War on July 10, 1866, and construction commenced two days later. Within three months Fort Sanders was occupied, though building and fully staffing it continued through 1867.