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The Cunninghams left the valley for Idaho in 1928, when land was being acquired for the future Grand Teton National Park. [4] Cunningham and his wife grew about 100 acres (40 ha) of hay, later irrigating another 140 acres (57 ha) to provide feed for 100 cattle and eight horses. His brother, W. Pierce Cunningham, settled his family nearby. [5]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Wyoming on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
Homesteading incentives dating from 1862 helped settle the far reaches of the country. And as population density increased, communities thrived. Some communities today simply need more people.
Geraldine Lucas Homestead/Fabian Place Historic District at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WY-113, "Geraldine Lucas Homestead, West bank Cottonwood Creek, 2.5 miles downstream from Jenny Lake, Moose vicinity, Teton County, WY", 3 photos, 32 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WY-83, "Andy Chambers' Ranch House, Mormon Row Road, Kelly vicinity, Teton County, WY", 6 photos, 5 measured drawings, 7 data pages, 1 photo caption page; Andy Chambers Homestead at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
The district consists of a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape's period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers , T.A. Moulton and John Moulton farms from 1908 to the 1950s.
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Wyoming, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, and ghost towns. Beulah in Crook County Rozet in Campbell County. Albany County (Bosler, Buford, Garrett, Tie Siding) Big Horn County (Emblem, Kane, Otto, Shell)