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Rock Creek, Wyoming (Historic)

Rock Creek, Wyoming (sometimes referred to as "Old Rock Creek" was a station and town on the Union Pacific Railroad. It lay along Rock Creek, a tributary of Medicine Bow Creek.

For about 10 years before 1878, local freighters moving goods to Fort Fetterman from the Union Pacific Railroad. For this 10 year span they had been utilizing a freight route that picked up goods at Medicine Bow, a station some 35 miles west on the Union Pacific, and carried them north across the Snowy Mountains to Fort Fetterman, on the North Plate River (near present day Douglas). The freighters realized that if they established a new freight route running north from the Union Pacific station at Medicine Bow, it would utilize an easier mountain crossing, would avoid numerous river crossings between Medicine Bow on the Union Pacific Railroad and Fort Fetterman, and would be a few miles shorter.

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