LARAMIE, a city and the county seat of
Albany co., Wyoming territory, on the Union
Pacific railroad, 7,122 ft. above the level of
the sea, 57 m. by rail and 40 m. in a direct line
W. N. W. of Cheyenne; pop. in 1870, 828; in
1874, about 2,500. It is regularly laid out at
right angles with the railroad. A stream of
clear cold water, fed by a spring at the foot of
the Black Hills a few miles E., runs through
the principal streets. The railroad company
has erected extensive machine shops, a depot, and a large hotel; and there are also a court house and jail, a national bank with a capital of $50,000, two schools, five churches, and two daily newspapers. It was laid out in April, 1868, when the railroad reached this point.