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Casper, WY - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Casper  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Casper Home page. The Casper Home page provides as much information as possible on Casper. Knowing Casper’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Casper’s Home page, you will also find Casper’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Casper has a population of 63962. 49% of Casper’s inhabitants are Male, and 51 are female. 48.7% of Casper is married and 67.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $214,208, and the average rent is $842. Household median income in Casper is $59,412, and the individual median income is $34,445. Casper’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.2%), Hispanic(8.3%), Multiple(2.5%), Black(1.3%), Native(1.3%), Other(0.4%), Asian(0.3%).


The city was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. The area was the location of several ferries that offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s.


In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations.The government soon posted a military garrison nearby to protect telegraph and mail service. It was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William O. Collins. Native American attacks increased after the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado in 1864, bringing more troops to the post, which was by now called Platte Bridge Station.


In July 1865, Lieutenant Caspar Collins (the son of Colonel Collins) was killed near the post by a group of Indian warriors. Three months later the garrison was renamed Fort Caspar after Lieutenant Collins. In 1867, the troops were ordered to abandon Fort Caspar in favor of Fort Fetterman downstream on the North Platte along the Bozeman Trail. The town of Casper itself was settled in 1887 and incorporated a year later, well after the fort had been closed.


The city was founded by developers as an anticipated stopping point during the expansion of the Wyoming Central Railway; it was an early commercial rival to Bessemer and Douglas, Wyoming. The lack of a railhead doomed Bessemer in favor of Casper. Douglas, also a railhead, survives to the present day.


The presence of a railhead made Casper the starting off point for the "invaders" in the Johnson County War. The special chartered train carrying the men up from Texas stopped at Casper. The town is named "Casper", instead of "Caspar", honoring the memory of Fort Caspar and Lt. Caspar Collins, due to a typo that occurred when the town's name was officially registered. A site a few miles east was planned to be the original site of Casper, where a homesteader named Joshua Stroud lived prior to a station of the Chicago and North Western Railway being built.


The site was laid out by the Pioneer Town Site Company in 1888 and was known as Strouds. The city received a significant number of visitors during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, due to its position along the path of totality.


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