Wyoming, Lincoln County, Afton
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First Mormons of record in the valley were 40 emigrants, miners from England, employed in 1858 by F.W. Lander to work on the Lander Cut-Off of the Pacific Wagon Road. By 1870 Church cattle were summer pastured in the valley. In 1879 the Church directed the colonization of the valley. In August 1880 apostles Moses Thatcher and Charles C. Rich renamed Salt River Valley to Star Valley and dedicated it for settlement by organizing a branch of the Bear Lake Stake with Charles Drake Cazier as president with 21 members in 5 households in the valley. 1880 census shows 45 persons in the valley. 1900 census shows 2,219. In 1892 the Star Valley Stake was formed with 7 Wards. The Rock Meeting House in Auburn was built in the winter of 1889 and the Tabernacle in Afton in 1905. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Sesquicentennial year 1997 there exists the Afton and Thayne Stakes. There are 15 wards including Smoot, Osmond, Fairview, Salt River, Afton 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, Grover, Auburn, Bedford, Thayne 1st and 2nd, Freedom and Etna/Alpine, with a combined membership of 6,214. Welcome to Star Valley. (Isaiah 2:2)
(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
First Mormons of record in the valley were 40 emigrants, miners from England, employed in 1858 by F.W. Lander to work on the Lander Cut-Off of the Pacific Wagon Road. By 1870 Church cattle were summer pastured in the valley. In 1879 the Church directed the colonization of the valley. In August 1880 apostles Moses Thatcher and Charles C. Rich renamed Salt River Valley to Star Valley and dedicated it for settlement by organizing a branch of the Bear Lake Stake with Charles Drake Cazier as president with 21 members in 5 households in the valley. 1880 census shows 45 persons in the valley. 1900 census shows 2,219. In 1892 the Star Valley Stake was formed with 7 Wards. The Rock Meeting House in Auburn was built in the winter of 1889 and the Tabernacle in Afton in 1905. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Sesquicentennial year 1997 there exists the Afton and Thayne Stakes. There are 15 wards including Smoot, Osmond, Fairview, Salt River, Afton 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, Grover, Auburn, Bedford, Thayne 1st and 2nd, Freedom and Etna/Alpine, with a combined membership of 6,214. Welcome to Star Valley. (Isaiah 2:2)(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Thayne, formerly called Glencoe, was founded in 1888, a which time mail was brought into Star Valley by team and wagon and distributed to the people from a log cabin owned by Joseph Thayne. The building was one room 12 X 15 feet with a dirt floor. Three years later it was moved to the center of town and Henry Thayne and his wife occupied it. This log cabin, located one and one-half rods west of this site, became the first post office May 8, 1891 with Laura Thayne post mistress.
Here in Sept. 1812, the returning Astorians led by Robert Stuart were attacked by the Indians and their horses stolen. 
The building of boats has been an important industry throughout the history of the port. The first schooner built on the Genesee was named the Jemima, built in the 1790's at the place known as "Fall Town," King's Landing and Hanford Landing. Also on the west bank of the river was a large drydock, built by Captain H.N. Throop, where steamboats were serviced. 
Oldest surviving house in Star Valley is this two room dwelling built in 1889 by Anna Eliza Baker and her 12 year old daughter May. The logs are hand-hewn on four sides and dovetailed at the corners. It was the first home in this area to have a shingled roof and wood floors. The Baker family; Alonzo, Anna Eliza and their 12 children were the first permanent residents on the east side of Salt River in the lower valley.
Sakakawea won her place in history as the indomitable guide of Lewis and Clark on their trip to the Pacific in 1805. She was a member of the Shoshoni tribe dwelling near the Big Horn mountains in Montana. In one of the frequent tribal conflicts she was captured and taken to North Dakota as a war captive. Here she was purchased by a fur trader named Tousant Charbonneau, who according to custom made her his wife. Lewis and Clark, in search of an interpreter for their trip west, tried to hire Charbonneau, but he would not go unless his wife was permitted to accompany him. The explorers reluctantly gave their permission. This was a fortunate decision for Lewis and Clark. By her courage, endurance and unerring instinct she guided the expedition over seemingly insuperable obstacles. The leaders frequently gave her credit for the success of the venture. After returning east, Charbonneau and Sakakawea settled down at Fort Manuel, about 30 miles north of here near Kend, South Dakota. On December 20, 1812 it was recorded in the daily journal of events at the fort that Sakakawea died of a putrid fever. There is no further record of her but it is safe to assume that this remarkable woman's grave is somewhere near the site of old Fort Manuel. Sakakawea is beyond question the most illustrious feminine representative of the Indian race.
First German Baptist Church of Corona, South Dakota Organized March 14, 1911 Charter Members Enno & Anna Reiter Enoch & Alida Block Anton & Flora Block Reinhold & Grace Koenigsberg William & Louise Schmidt August Loof William & Wilhelmina Sprung Mrs. Albert (Minnie) Weise Fred & Greetje Van Hoorn William & Kate Kampen Enno & Gretje Okken 
Jamestown Dam
1953
Missouri River Basin project
Built by and for the people of the United States
for the conservation, control, and use of water resources.
Height of Dam 110 Feet
Length of Crest 1418 Feet
Reservoir Capacity 230,000 Acre Feet
United States
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
On this spot stood Colon Campbell Fur Post 1822 - 28
The very important Sioux, Waneta was born near this place 1794 - 1848
To commemorate the first church erected in
Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, this log
replica was constructed in 1976 by the Union
Township 4-H Clubs and the West Milton area
Camp Fire Girls.
Erected 1948
in memory of
Samuel
and
Anna Jay Jones
this wall contains
brick from the
Friends Meeting House
which stood across
the road in active
service from
1804 to 1906
John Hoover
1760 – 1831
Sarah Burkett Hoover
1767 – 1843
great- great- grandparents of
the Honorable Herbert C. Hoover
placed by
Fort Greenville Daughters of the American Revolution
1957
Completed in 1887, this building served as an infantry barracks, or housing for infantry troops stationed here. With an interior of wooden floors and plastered walls, it was a vast improvement over the rude log barracks in use since 1858. Shaped like an inverted capital 'T', the front part, or top of the 'T' measures 102' x 38' and faces the parade grounds. The majority of this section was a dormitory where a fifty-man company lived and slept. On the right side were three small shop rooms and a store room. On the left side there was another store room and rooms for the 1st Sergeant and an orderly. The rear portion measures 64' x 34' and held the kitchen, dining room , barbershop and washroom. Built of quarried stone, this is the largest of the remaining original buildings at Fort Bridger. 
