Editing Encampment, Wyoming (section)

==History==
[[File:Dbl decker outhouse.jpg|alt=Look out below.|thumb|left|Double decker outhouse at the Grand Encampment Museum, September 2011]]

Known also as "Grand Encampment", this town along the Colorado-Wyoming border was, at the turn of the twentieth century, a booming center of copper mining and smelting. At one point a sixteen-mile tramway was built to carry copper ore from the mountains into the town for smelting. This steam powered tramway was, at the time, the longest in the world.<ref>{{cite book|title=Men of Wyoming: the national newspaper reference book of Wyoming containgin photographs and biographies of over three hundred men residents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CENOAAAAYAAJ&q=encampment+wyoming+tramway+longest&pg=PA77|publisher=[[AbeBooks]]; a reprint of a 1915 publication by [[Princeton University]]|year=1915|author=C. S. Petersen|page=77}}</ref> A sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Encampment River Valley, Wyoming Assessment Report |url=http://www.wyomingrural.org/_pdfs/EncampmentRiverValleyFinalReport.pdf |publisher=Wyoming Rural Development Council |access-date=October 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314033505/http://www.wyomingrural.org/_pdfs/EncampmentRiverValleyFinalReport.pdf |archive-date=March 14, 2012 }}</ref> Mining operations ceased in the early twentieth century. A large [[sawmill]] operated in the town between 1950 and 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Strategic Economic Development Plan for The Town of Saratoga, Wyoming |url=http://www.northstareconomics.com/SaratogaPlan-FinalReport.pdf |publisher=NorthStar Economics, Inc. |access-date=October 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714195444/http://www.northstareconomics.com/SaratogaPlan-FinalReport.pdf |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}</ref>

The Grand Encampment Museum<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Wyoming History Preserved at the GEM |url=http://www.gemuseum.com/ |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617163811/http://www.gemuseum.com/ |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |access-date=June 19, 2023 |website=gemuseum}}</ref> is located in Encampment. It highlights the copper mining, ranching, logging history in the area. It includes over 15 historic buildings and thousands of interesting objects. A research library is located in the main gallery, the Doc Culleton Interpretive Center.
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