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Names Hill State Historic Site is a steep cliff rising above the Green River and is one of three locations along the Oregon Trail where emigrants registered their presence. At Names Hill they camped and carved their names into the soft limestone.
Names Hill is a bluff located on the bank of the Green River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, where travelers on the Oregon and California trails carved their names into the rock. It is one of three notable "recording areas" along the emigrant trails in Wyoming along with Register Cliff and Independence Rock .
Names Hill is a soft sandstone cliff, near the Green River crossing of the Sublette Cutoff of the Oregon Trail, where many pioneers inscribed their names. It lies on the west side of U.S. 189 about six miles south of La Barge, Wyo. in the northeast corner of Lincoln County.
13 mar 2017 · Names Hill is a soft sandstone cliff, near the Green River crossing of the Sublette Cutoff of the Oregon Trail, where many pioneers inscribed their names. It lies on the west side of U.S. 189 about six miles south of La Barge, Wyo. in the northeast corner of Lincoln County.
Names Hill State Historic Site. Site Facilities. US Highway 189, 6 miles south of LaBarge. Brief History. This site, on the cliffs rising above the Green River, is one of three locations along the Oregon Trail where emigrants registered their presence.
24 sie 2020 · #ThenandNow– Names Hill State Historic Site We have discussed all of the buildings that still stand at the fort, so we will go through the four...
Many of them carved their names onto the "register" of the route, Names Hill, as they rested by the river after a dry walk from the Big Sandy River. The most famous name on the register is that of trapper Jim Bridger, who passed by in 1844.
