It was a bit windy in the afternoon! Here they are standing by a marker showing the two trails. You can still see the ruts in the dirt where the pioneers traveled.
Emilene France showed the girls and myself where there were a couple of graves near Brigham's Arrow. Her family has lived in the area forever and she has an uncle who helped survey the surrounding area for historical purposes. I was telling the family about these graves. Seeing how Jason wasn't too respectful, he probably didn't believe they were actually the burial spots for at least 2 pioneers.
At least the girls were respectful. After Emilene pointed them out to me, I really could see how they were graves since there were no other rocks piled up in the area. I think since the graves were on the side of the trail where the Mormon pioneers traveled that they could have been Mormons heading to the Valley.
I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on in the back of the suburban but when I heard lots of laughter, I made dad take a picture of what was going on. LOL! It's a new contraption to help keep Tyson's head upright while he naps! Kasey can come up with some good ones!
I had heard of this place but didn't realize that it was practically in our back yard! The Mormon pioneers camped in this area.
Here's the story where you can read it. Thank goodness for Eagle projects! Some young man did this years ago.
I could imagine my own pioneer ancestors camping here on their way to the Salt Lake Valley. Gives me chills to think that Ann Ham looked around and saw what I saw this day.
The charcoal kilns in Piedmont, now a ghost town.
Inside one of the kilns. The workers would stack 30 cords of wood in each kiln and then burn it down to make charcoal.
Here is an opening to get the cords of wood into the kiln.
You can read the story behind kilns.
Did you know the Golden Spike ceremony was delayed a day because of the train in Piedmont?
Or that Butch Cassidy was here?!
For some reason I didn't get a picture of the few old houses still standing across the road.
Cemetery for the original settlers. We had to cross a creek to get to it.
Looking back towards the kilns.
Even found a lake up past Piedmont that is used by fishermen. These vehicles were all from Colorado.
Corbin was let out of his car seat as we drove a little ways. It made for a happier ride for the lil' guy.
Here he is playing Pat-A-Cake with his mommy. He sure was happy! Lots of laughs and smiles from him this day!
Had a great afternoon with the family and seeing some Wyoming history. We took a back road on over to Evanston and then came home. Found several other roads to explore so hope to get back out again soon!
