Wyoming, Johnson County, Kaycee
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In the months following Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, a group of Native American members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe left their allies along the Little Big Horn River and traveled south to encamp for the winter. Led by Dull Knife and Lone Wolf, nearly 1400 people erected a 175-lodge village approximately 30 miles west of this point. The United States Army, seeking to end Native American resistance following Custer's defeat, dispatched Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his force of 750 cavalrymen and a assortment of 400 Indian scouts to pursue Dull Knife and his people.
Aware that the U.S. Army was in pursuit, many Northern Cheyenne advocated relocating their camp to a different location. At the behest of a soldier chief named Last Bull, the camp was not moved. The night before the battle, the Cheyenne erected a large fire to celebrate the success of a recent raid against a group of Shoshone Indians. By the bitterly cold morning of November 26, 1876, Colonel MacKenzie and his men reached the village following a night march and began their attack.
Awakened by the sound of gunfire, Cheyenne warriors put up a fierce and determined resistance. Their action allowed their families to flee to a series of hills overlooking the battle site. During the battle, MacKenzie's forces captured nearly 500 Cheyenne horses and destroy the village. The Cheyenne, now without their basic provisions and horses, faced death from exposure to the harsh winter conditions. In the following months they sought shelter among friendly tribes. By 1877, following their defeat at Dull Knife and the loss of their territory due to settlement, the Cheyenne surrendered to the U.S. Government. In 1884 they were placed on a reservation in southeast Montana.
(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In the months following Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, a group of Native American members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe left their allies along the Little Big Horn River and traveled south to encamp for the winter. Led by Dull Knife and Lone Wolf, nearly 1400 people erected a 175-lodge village approximately 30 miles west of this point. The United States Army, seeking to end Native American resistance following Custer's defeat, dispatched Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his force of 750 cavalrymen and a assortment of 400 Indian scouts to pursue Dull Knife and his people. Aware that the U.S. Army was in pursuit, many Northern Cheyenne advocated relocating their camp to a different location. At the behest of a soldier chief named Last Bull, the camp was not moved. The night before the battle, the Cheyenne erected a large fire to celebrate the success of a recent raid against a group of Shoshone Indians. By the bitterly cold morning of November 26, 1876, Colonel MacKenzie and his men reached the village following a night march and began their attack.
Awakened by the sound of gunfire, Cheyenne warriors put up a fierce and determined resistance. Their action allowed their families to flee to a series of hills overlooking the battle site. During the battle, MacKenzie's forces captured nearly 500 Cheyenne horses and destroy the village. The Cheyenne, now without their basic provisions and horses, faced death from exposure to the harsh winter conditions. In the following months they sought shelter among friendly tribes. By 1877, following their defeat at Dull Knife and the loss of their territory due to settlement, the Cheyenne surrendered to the U.S. Government. In 1884 they were placed on a reservation in southeast Montana.
(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
From the top of the Big Horn Mountains on the west to the Pumpkin Buttes on the east, this area evolved with grazing animals, from bison and other wildlife hunted by nomadic Indians, to the vast herds of cattle brought in by foreign investors in the late 1800's. Foreign investors and their free grazing of the range ended as the homesteaders arrived. Lured by the American dream of owning land these homesteaders started new lives, learning to live in harmony with the land, becoming the original environmentalists. The Johnson County Cattle War in 1889 (sic) was the culmination of the clash between the homesteaders and the free grazing cattle baron. 
From this point in any direction is Powder River Country. 
For 75 years, this brick building - with its sign on the north side - was the Walnut Creek Meat Market, owned by brothers Fred, Joe and Harry Lawrence. (The fourth brother ran an auto garage across the street.) The family meat market moved to Alamo in 1986.
In the early 1890's, a series of localized conflicts characterized by competition for resources, accusations of cattle rustling, and issues of cattle management broke into a shooting conflict in Johnson County in 1892. Large cattle owners, associated with the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, hired Tom Smith of Texas to employ gunmen to seek out and kill small ranchers accused of cattle rustling. On April 5, 1892 the men boarded a train for Cheyenne, Wyoming and made their way to Johnson County. 
Avery and Mary (Ten Eyck) Turner moved here in 1902. Avery was an executive for the Santa Fe Railroad, his employer for 58 years. Mary helped organize the local American Red Cross chapter and was active with the Salvation Army and other groups. In 1910, the Turners built this home modeled after Mary’s parents’ home in New Jersey. The house stayed in the family until Mary’s death in 1951. One of Amarillo’s very few Dutch colonial revival homes, this two-story side gable brick house has a full-width porch with massive Tuscan columns and a large shed roof dormer. An original brick carriage house later became a guest cottage.
Constructed in 1912 for lumber merchant H.W. Galbraith (d. 1936) and his wife Kate (d. 1969), this two-story residence reflects the Craftsman style. Exhibiting quality materials in the clapboards, exposed rafters, and shingled roof, the house also features strong geometric lines in its low-pitched hipped roof, second story balcony, and two-bay front porch with paired columns set on brick supports. The house remained in the Galbraith family until 1970.
This residence, built for cattleman J.D. Shuford, was completed in 1913. Designed by the Kansas City architectural firm of Shepard, Farrar, and Wiser, the house reflects the Prairie School style with its hipped roof and wide eaves. Other prominent features include a porch with classical columns and balustrades. In 1927 the house was purchased by local physician and civic leader R.S. Killough. It remained in the Killough family until 1946.
Bridget Lockman Smith and her husband John, immigrated from Ireland in the 1850’s following the Irish potato famine. They settled in Mine Hill with other Irish immigrant iron mine workers in a section then known as Irishtown. By the time Bridget purchased this double house in 1879 for $300, John had been killed in a local mining accident. She was living on one side raising two children while renting the other side to another Irish “widow of the mines” with six children. This historic site offers a unique glimpse into the past of working class families. Left virtually unchanged since it was built in 1855, the house had a simple conversion in 1912 to accommodate a single family. Listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, it represents an important intact example of worker housing in northern New Jersey. Restored and opened in 1998, the museum is staffed by volunteers on selected dates and by special arrangement to offer insight into the simple but difficult live of immigrant working women raising families in the late 1800’s.
Youngest and smallest municipality in Morris County. Incorporated in 1951 after separation from Randolph Township. Originated as Federal Housing Project for local defense workers during World War II.
Noted architect Jeremiah O’Rourke designed this 1873 Gothic church. Built of local rough-cut stone, it features an open timber roof and jewel-toned stained glass. Early parishioners included immigrants who labored in nearby iron mines.
Site of house of Dr. Jonathan Johnson first physician in Dunnsville who came here on horseback in 1808 surgeon in War of 1812
Settlement, established as port on Morris Canal and Depot on Morris and Essex Railroad. Fostered development of Wharton Furnace. Borough name changed to Wharton in 1902.
National Register Landmark. Information-Canal crossed here Plane No. 5-East was east of here
October 2, 1948 - March 9, 2005 
