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Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA

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Wikipedia 2017:

Torrington is a city in, and the county seat of, Goshen County, Wyoming in the United States. The population was 6,501 at the 2010 census.

It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region's center of commercial activity. Within this primarily agricultural community, there are several fertilizer plants, a sugar factory, and numerous tourist facilities and retail businesses that serve the local and nearby rural populations.

History:

Situated on the historic Mormon Trail and near the Oregon and California trails along the banks of the North Platte River, Torrington was founded in 1900 by W.G. Curtis (1857–1913), and named by him for his home town of Torrington, Connecticut. Originally a watering and coaling station for the CB&Q Railroad, which began passenger service in 1900, the growing city soon became the main source of civilization for nearby farmers and ranchers. In 1905, the first bridge was constructed over the North Platte River, which it had previously been necessary to ford.

A post office called Torrington was established in 1889 on W. G. Curtis' farm three miles west of where the town of Torrington would be in 1900, with W. G. Curtis serving as Postmaster. By 1908 the town was incorporated as a town in Laramie County. It had a bank, three general stores, a pharmacy with a soda fountain, a land office, and two hotels (for one of which the building, although modified, still exists at 1841 Main Street.) It soon became a central place of trade for Goshen County, and for surrounding areas in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Situated on the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming near the Nebraska border, the town site survey began on April 1900, by Ashland B. Smith of the Lincoln Land Company of Nebraska. The survey and plating was completed and recorded in public records in Cheyenne on June 22, 1900, individual plots of the land were sold to residents for one dollar each by By Charles Henry Morrill, President of the Lincoln Land Company. More The Torrington Telegram (which was still published in 2015) was established in 1911. The 1900 United States Census lists only 71 inhabitants in the Torrington Precinct and does not list it as a town. All were stock growers, ranch laborers, cowboys or at school. Only one was listed as a Hardware clerk.

Also in 1911, Goshen County was officially organized. The County was created from what had previously been a portion of the northern end of Laramie County. The towns of Torrington and nearby Lingle—some 10 miles away—both competed for designation as the county seat. Torrington ultimately prevailed, and was selected, after Torrington residents were able to raise sufficient funds for a construction of a courthouse. The cornerstone for the courthouse was set in 1913, during a ceremony where a band played, conducted by Hi Yoder—from whose family the nearby town of Yoder, Wyoming, takes its name.

Also by that time, early motor cars started showing up in town, the Goshen County Fair Association had been established, and in 1915 Torrington had a population of 443. In 1919, the Trail Hotel building, which still exists at 2001 Main Street, was constructed. In 1925, the Union Pacific Railroad based in Omaha constructed a spur line from Cheyenne to South Torrington, to serve the proposed Holly Sugar Corporation plant which began operations in 1926.

The large, 24-hour Holly Sugar factory was still operating in 2015 as a major employer for the Torrington area, and the preserved historic Union Pacific Depot building now houses the Goshen County Homesteaders Museum.

The Torrington Livestock Commission, established in 1934, still held twice-weekly livestock auctions in 2015. It is the largest livestock auction operation and barn in Wyoming, and ranks as the third to fifth largest livestock auction in the United States. Drawing cattle from a nine-state region (Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana and the bulk of Wyoming) the Torrington livestock auction barn attracts buyers from all over the nation. And, as of 2011, Goshen County ranked number one in Wyoming for its cattle inventory.

Today, when traveling between Torrington and Guernsey, Wyoming, motorists will be following the path of the historic Oregon and Mormon Trail as they make their way along the banks of the North Platte River past the site of the 1854 Grattan Massacre near Lingle, and past the historic western 19th-Century U.S. Army Cavalry outpost, Fort Laramie National Historic Site.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Eisenbarth, Dale C.	30 Sep 1928	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I20834
2	Hahn, Arlene Kathryn	25 Jul 1937	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I12681
3	Hahn, Merle Stanley	2 Mrz 1927	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I12678
4	Hughes, Mary Martha	22 Feb 1936	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I12690
5	Reck, Helen Frances	10 Jan 1913	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I152553
6	Reichert, Bonnie Jean	9 Dez 1936	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2745
7	Reichert, Loretta Joan	22 Okt 1934	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2460
8	Reichert, Norman Lee	19 Jan 1932	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2744
9	Schlepp, Larry	1940	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I20812
10	Weickum, Jeanette	3 Jul 1948	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I150721

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Broeckel, Adam	11 Apr 1963	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I170077
2	Broeckel, Emil	20 Sep 1998	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I170079
3	Eisenbarth, Carl	4 Jan 1948	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2651
4	Eisenbarth, Sophia	28 Mrz 1958	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I83961
5	Heckman, Edward	5 Okt 2009	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I153904
6	Herdt, Peter	11 Dez 1946	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I235016
7	Korb, Frederick W.	1 Jan 1996	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I153905
8	Miller, Frederick William	23 Mrz 1990	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I5857
9	Murren, Gladys Ellen	16 Feb 2000	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I5858
10	Schmidt, Christina	1 Aug 1945	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I83984
11	Strecker, Elisabeth	15 Mrz 1957	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I153902
12	Weickum, Henry Jr.	20 Jun 1979	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I150719
13	Weickum, Jeanette	21 Nov 2015	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I150721
14	Weikum, Elsie	15 Dez 1933	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I83966
15	Weikum, Reinhold J.	31 Mrz 1969	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I270975

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Broeckel, Adam	14 Apr 1963	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I170077
2	Eisenbarth, Carl		Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2651
3	Eisenbarth, Sophia		Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I83961
4	Holzwarth, Margaretha		Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I2652
5	Weikum, Reinhold J.		Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	I270975

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Arnold / Hahn	15 Sep 1956	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F4511
2	Clark / Ulmer	1 Mai 1940	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F11948
3	Curry / Korb	31 Dez 1948	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F50537
4	Hahn / Benshoaf	1 Mai 1926	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F4510
5	Hahn / Hughes	27 Feb 1955	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F4513
6	Heckman / Korb	8 Mai 1946	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F50536
7	Reichert / Eisenbarth	20 Jun 1929	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F70537
8	Ulmer / Capper	22 Okt 1933	Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, USA	F11953