National Register of Historic Places

Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot

Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming
Listed
August 2, 1994
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
94000741

About this property

The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot, also known as the Chicago and North Western Railway Passenger Depot and presently as the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center, was built in 1886 in Douglas, Wyoming to accommodate traffic on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad's (FE&MV) terminus at the newly built town. The depot was built as a fairly small, cautious investment in a possibly ephemeral frontier town. Immediately following the completion of the depot Douglas saw an epidemic of typhoid fever and the worst winter in a generation, and the railroad decided to push on to Casper for its terminus. The town's population declined from 1600 in 1886 to 900 in 1888. By 1891 Owen Wister reported that Douglas had a population of about 350. However, by 1910 Douglas had 2246 residents and hosted the Wyoming State Fair. The presence of the fair stimulated rail traffic, while the FE&MV merged with the Cheyenne and Northern Railway in 1903. In 1905 oil development started. In the 1950s coal mining began for the Dave Johnson Power Plant and the railway expanded its Douglas facilities to accommodate the traffic, closing the original depot and building a larger facility. The depot was acquired from the railroad's successor, the Chicago and North Western Railway, by the city in 1990.

Location

121 Brownfield Rd.
Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming
42.75937, -105.40016

Categories

TRANSPORTATION
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot listed on the National Register?

Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1994.

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Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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