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Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA



 


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Wikipedia 2017:

Torrington is a city in, and the county seat of, Goshen County, Wyoming in the United States. The population was 6,501 at the 2010 census.

It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region's center of commercial activity. Within this primarily agricultural community, there are several fertilizer plants, a sugar factory, and numerous tourist facilities and retail businesses that serve the local and nearby rural populations.

History:

Situated on the historic Mormon Trail and near the Oregon and California trails along the banks of the North Platte River, Torrington was founded in 1900 by W.G. Curtis (1857–1913), and named by him for his home town of Torrington, Connecticut. Originally a watering and coaling station for the CB&Q Railroad, which began passenger service in 1900, the growing city soon became the main source of civilization for nearby farmers and ranchers. In 1905, the first bridge was constructed over the North Platte River, which it had previously been necessary to ford.

A post office called Torrington was established in 1889 on W. G. Curtis' farm three miles west of where the town of Torrington would be in 1900, with W. G. Curtis serving as Postmaster. By 1908 the town was incorporated as a town in Laramie County. It had a bank, three general stores, a pharmacy with a soda fountain, a land office, and two hotels (for one of which the building, although modified, still exists at 1841 Main Street.) It soon became a central place of trade for Goshen County, and for surrounding areas in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Situated on the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming near the Nebraska border, the town site survey began on April 1900, by Ashland B. Smith of the Lincoln Land Company of Nebraska. The survey and plating was completed and recorded in public records in Cheyenne on June 22, 1900, individual plots of the land were sold to residents for one dollar each by By Charles Henry Morrill, President of the Lincoln Land Company. More The Torrington Telegram (which was still published in 2015) was established in 1911. The 1900 United States Census lists only 71 inhabitants in the Torrington Precinct and does not list it as a town. All were stock growers, ranch laborers, cowboys or at school. Only one was listed as a Hardware clerk.

Also in 1911, Goshen County was officially organized. The County was created from what had previously been a portion of the northern end of Laramie County. The towns of Torrington and nearby Lingle—some 10 miles away—both competed for designation as the county seat. Torrington ultimately prevailed, and was selected, after Torrington residents were able to raise sufficient funds for a construction of a courthouse. The cornerstone for the courthouse was set in 1913, during a ceremony where a band played, conducted by Hi Yoder—from whose family the nearby town of Yoder, Wyoming, takes its name.

Also by that time, early motor cars started showing up in town, the Goshen County Fair Association had been established, and in 1915 Torrington had a population of 443. In 1919, the Trail Hotel building, which still exists at 2001 Main Street, was constructed. In 1925, the Union Pacific Railroad based in Omaha constructed a spur line from Cheyenne to South Torrington, to serve the proposed Holly Sugar Corporation plant which began operations in 1926.

The large, 24-hour Holly Sugar factory was still operating in 2015 as a major employer for the Torrington area, and the preserved historic Union Pacific Depot building now houses the Goshen County Homesteaders Museum.

The Torrington Livestock Commission, established in 1934, still held twice-weekly livestock auctions in 2015. It is the largest livestock auction operation and barn in Wyoming, and ranks as the third to fifth largest livestock auction in the United States. Drawing cattle from a nine-state region (Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana and the bulk of Wyoming) the Torrington livestock auction barn attracts buyers from all over the nation. And, as of 2011, Goshen County ranked number one in Wyoming for its cattle inventory.

Today, when traveling between Torrington and Guernsey, Wyoming, motorists will be following the path of the historic Oregon and Mormon Trail as they make their way along the banks of the North Platte River past the site of the 1854 Grattan Massacre near Lingle, and past the historic western 19th-Century U.S. Army Cavalry outpost, Fort Laramie National Historic Site.

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Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Eisenbarth, Dale C.  30 Sep 1928Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I20834
2 Hahn, Arlene Kathryn  25 Jul 1937Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I12681
3 Hahn, Merle Stanley  2 Mrz 1927Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I12678
4 Hughes, Mary Martha  22 Feb 1936Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I12690
5 Reck, Helen Frances  10 Jan 1913Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I152553
6 Reichert, Bonnie Jean  9 Dez 1936Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2745
7 Reichert, Loretta Joan  22 Okt 1934Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2460
8 Reichert, Norman Lee  19 Jan 1932Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2744
9 Schlepp, Larry  1940Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I20812
10 Weickum, Jeanette  3 Jul 1948Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I150721

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Broeckel, Adam  11 Apr 1963Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I170077
2 Broeckel, Emil  20 Sep 1998Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I170079
3 Eisenbarth, Carl  4 Jan 1948Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2651
4 Eisenbarth, Sophia  28 Mrz 1958Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I83961
5 Heckman, Edward  5 Okt 2009Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I153904
6 Korb, Frederick W.  1 Jan 1996Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I153905
7 Miller, Frederick William  23 Mrz 1990Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I5857
8 Murren, Gladys Ellen  16 Feb 2000Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I5858
9 Schmidt, Christina  1 Aug 1945Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I83984
10 Strecker, Elisabeth  15 Mrz 1957Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I153902
11 Weickum, Henry Jr.  20 Jun 1979Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I150719
12 Weickum, Jeanette  21 Nov 2015Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I150721
13 Weikum, Elsie  15 Dez 1933Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I83966
14 Weikum, Reinhold J.  31 Mrz 1969Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I270975

Beerdigung

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Beerdigung    Personen-Kennung 
1 Broeckel, Adam  14 Apr 1963Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I170077
2 Eisenbarth, Carl  Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2651
3 Eisenbarth, Sophia  Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I83961
4 Holzwarth, Margaretha  Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I2652
5 Weikum, Reinhold J.  Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA I270975

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Arnold / Hahn  15 Sep 1956Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F4511
2 Clark / Ulmer  1 Mai 1940Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F11948
3 Curry / Korb  31 Dez 1948Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F50537
4 Hahn / Benshoaf  1 Mai 1926Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F4510
5 Hahn / Hughes  27 Feb 1955Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F4513
6 Heckman / Korb  8 Mai 1946Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F50536
7 Reichert / Eisenbarth  20 Jun 1929Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F70537
8 Ulmer / Capper  22 Okt 1933Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA F11953