Editing Laramie, Wyoming (section)

===National Register sites===
[[File:WY 07-05-2008 12;17;17PM.JPG|right|thumb|Marshal's carriage at Wyoming Territorial Prison]]
Twenty-one sites in Laramie, including the [[Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site|Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary]], are included on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP). The prison site includes buildings and other exhibits from a frontier community of the late 19th&nbsp;century. The other sites are the [[Downtown Laramie Historic District]], the [[Ivinson Mansion and Grounds]], [[Old Main (University of Wyoming)|Old Main]] on the University of Wyoming campus, the [[Barn at Oxford Horse Ranch]], [[Bath Ranch]], [[Bath Row]], [[Charles E. Blair House]], [[John D. Conley House]], [[Cooper Mansion]], [[East Side School (Laramie, Wyoming)|East Side School]], [[Fort Sanders (Wyoming)|Fort Sanders Guardhouse]], [[William Goodale House]], [[Lehman-Tunnell Mansion]], [[Lincoln School (Laramie, Wyoming)|Lincoln School]], [[Richardson's Overland Trail Ranch]], [[St. Matthew's Cathedral Close]], [[St. Paul's United Church of Christ of Laramie|St. Paulus Kirche]], [[Snow Train Rolling Stock]], [[Union Pacific Athletic Club]], and the [[Vee Bar Ranch Lodge]].<ref name="register">{{cite web | title = National Register of Historic Places: State listings: Wyoming: Albany County | publisher = National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior | url = http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wy/Albany/state.html| access-date = February 11, 2008 }}</ref>

Two other Albany County sites near Laramie are on the NRHP. About {{convert|20|mi|km|0}} east of the city is the [[Ames Monument]], a large granite pyramid dedicated to brothers [[Oakes Ames]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]], and [[Oliver Ames Jr.]], who were influential in building the Union Pacific portion of the [[First transcontinental railroad]]. Oakes Ames was also implicated in the [[Crédit Mobilier of America scandal|Credit Mobilier scandal]] and censured by the U.S. House. The other site is [[Como Bluff]], a long ridge extending east–west between Rock River and [[Medicine Bow, Wyoming|Medicine Bow]]. Geologic formations in the ridge contain fossils, including dinosaurs, from the [[Late Jurassic]].<ref name="register" />