Editing Douglas, Wyoming (section)

==History==
[[File:Douglas-Wyoming-1920s-postcard.jpg|left|thumb|Center St., looking east (1920s)]]
Douglas was [[plat]]ted in 1886<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA65|year=1908|page=65}}</ref> when the [[Wyoming Central Railway]] (later the [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company]]) established a railway station; the settlement had been in existence since 1867 when [[Fort Fetterman]] was built and was first known as "Tent City"<ref name="AAA">American Automobile Association (2002) ''Tourbook: Idaho, Montana & Wyoming'' AAA Publishing, Heathrow, Florida, p. 148  ISSN 0363-2695</ref> before it was officially named "Douglas", after Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23192|title=Profile for Douglas, Wyoming|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=May 28, 2010|archive-date=May 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510001047/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23192|url-status=dead}}</ref> It served as a supply point, warehousing and retail, for surrounding cattle ranches, as well as servicing railway crews, cowboys and the troops of the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] stationed at Fort Fetterman.

Douglas was the home of a [[Camp Douglas (Wyoming)|World War II prisoner of war camp]]. Its former railroad passenger depot is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].