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The Grand Encampment Museum [8] is located in Encampment. It highlights the copper mining, ranching, logging history in the area. It includes over 15 historic buildings and thousands of interesting objects. A research library is located in the main gallery, the Doc Culleton Interpretive Center.
The Ferris-Haggerty Mine Site was one of the richest components of the Grand Encampment Mining District in Carbon County, Wyoming.The site was first exploited by Ed Haggerty, a prospector from Whitehaven, England, in 1897 when he established the Rudefeha Mine that would later be known as the Ferris-Haggerty Mine on a rich deposit of copper ore.
The Boston Wyoming Smelter Site was the site of a copper smelter that processed ores from the nearby Grand Encampment Mining District in Carbon County, Wyoming in the early 20th century. The site includes the former town of Rudefeha and is near Encampment, Wyoming .
Silver Spur Ranch is a company owned by John Malone and headquartered at Encampment, Wyoming. Founded in the 1950s, it has ranches in Colorado and northern New Mexico. [1] It owns the TO Ranch in northern New Mexico. In 2010, it purchased Bell Ranch, a large cattle ranch in New Mexico. In Colorado, it owns cattle ranches in Kiowa and Walden. [1]
The Willises settled in Encampment, which was near the center of the Grand Encampment copper mining boom of the early 20th century, with a ready supply of miners seeking entertainment. The Willises traveled throughout Colorado and Wyoming, starting a number of businesses, many involving prostitution.
Bridger Peak, elevation 11,004 feet (3,354 meters), is the range's highest elevation in Wyoming. [2] Copper resources within the range were extracted during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the Ferris-Haggarty Mine which lies about two miles west of Bridger Peak. Its operations were centered near Encampment 15 miles to the east.
One exception is the copper mines in Carbon County west of Encampment. ... A Brief History of Wyoming 1860 - 1960 (2010) Cassity, Michael.
Willis George Emerson (1856–1918) was an American novelist (a pioneer of American science fiction), Chicago newspaperman, lawyer, politician, and promoter, who formed the North American Copper Company in Wyoming. [1] He founded the town of Encampment, Wyoming. [1]