Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations

The Rawhide Buttes Stage Station, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates the stage coach route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota. The route operated beginning in 1876, during the height of the Black Hills Gold Rush, and was replaced in 1887 by a railroad.

The Rawhide Buttes station was demolished in 1973 after having functioned as a ranch headquarters. The ruin of the stage station barn is the only remnant of the Running Water Station, which stood about north of Rawhide Butte near the stage route's intersection with the Texas Trail. Running Water saw a minor mining boom during the 1880s, but was superseded by Lusk.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

References

External links

at the National Park Service's NRHP database

Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route Historic District at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Geography of Niobrara County, Wyoming

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming

National Register of Historic Places in Niobrara County, Wyoming

Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming

Demolished buildings and structures in Wyoming

1876 establishments in Wyoming Territory

Buildings and structures demolished in 1973

1973 disestablishments in Wyoming