Vanishing Wyoming: The Railroad Town Of Sherman

An important railroad town, way back when, Sherman Wyoming is nothing more than some foundations if you know what you are looking at.

Sherman is a ghost town in Albany County, Wyoming.

It's located 19 miles southeast of Laramie, follow interstate 80, in the Laramie Mountains

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The town was named for Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman at his request.

It lasted from the 1860s to 1918.

Sherman sat at the summit of the original grade of the first transcontinental railroad along the rails of the Union Pacific Railroad, at an elevation of 8,247 ft.

Several hundred people lived in Sherman. The town had a general store, post office, schoolhouse, two hotels (Sherman House and Summit House), and two saloons. This was the Old West. There were usually as many if not more Salloons than churches.

If you drive to the area you'll see that the railroad tracks have since been moved to a position that makes a lot more sense.

Union Pacific construction crews had initially called the area Lone Tree Pass and Evans Pass.

The Evans name honored James A. Evans, who surveyed the area, searching for a shorter route for the railroad.

The town was abandoned after the Union Pacific moved its tracks to the south.

But the townsite is still the location of the Ames Monument, erected by the railroad to mark its original high point.

Should you visit Ames Monument you'll see a marker telling you about the town.

That's not the only town that was up there, there was another, to the west, within view of the town of Sherman.

Scroll down to read about a one-room Wyoming schoolhouse that has been preserved for all time.