About 31,000 of Albany County’s current 37,000 residents live in Laramie. [6] In 1875, the Wyoming Territorial legislature authorized portions of Albany County to be annexed to create Crook and Johnson counties, and in 1888 land was taken from Albany County for the creation of Converse County. Sources: Wyoming Division of Economic Analysis Equality State Almanac, County Profiles, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/almanac/Page135_183.pdf ; Wyoming DEA summary of decennial U. S. Census data, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/cntycity_hist.htm; Wyoming DEA Employment, Income, and Gross Domestic Product Report, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/i&e/Inc_Emp_Report09.pdf; 2010 Census Summary Report for Wyoming, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/pop2010/2010_Census_Summary.pdf; 2011 county population estimates, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO-11est.pdf. Real law and order was established when the Wyoming Territory was organized in 1869, and Gov. Holladay outfitted his stations with hunters, blacksmiths and various other accommodations. As the line entered Albany County, the U.P. Albany County Marriage Records are official documents that contain information about marriages certified in Albany County, Wyoming. Holladay’s stations served travelers and agents at Virginia Dale, Colorado Territory, and in Wyoming Territory at Willow Springs, Big Laramie, Little Laramie, Cooper Creek and Rock Creek. In this spirit, the county has partnered with OpenGov to provide its citizens and stakeholders with the Financial Transparency Portal. Albany County, Wyoming is committed to honest budgeting, responsible spending, and financial transparency. ACSD#1 shall not discriminate in any manner because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or age in its programs and activities. Women's service on juries did not last long, however. Its county seat is Laramie, the site of the University of Wyoming. [14], Of the 15,691 households, 21.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.9% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 52.6% were non-families, and 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals. Other stations were located at Red Butte, Cooper, Lake, Lookout Miser, Wyoming Station, Rock Creek and Como. Department of Family Services. As typical with towns that sprang up along the railroad, Laramie attracted the worst sort of scoundrels and was a rough and lawless place after the Union Pacific arrived in 1868. Cornerstone laid for first Territorial Penitentiary, Laramie. Seven city officials were selected by a group of townspeople at a meeting on May 2, 1868, but in subsequent weeks officers of the new government began resigning. New owners renamed it the Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad. [12], The median income for a household in the county was $42,890 and the median income for a family was $70,054. The lake Owen complex south of Keystone and New Rambler received some interest in the early 1980s by prospectors looking for platinum and gold. They built a sawmill and lumber yard, and started the Centennial Post newspaper at Centennial. Albany County. We are on. Laramie’s post office and local newspapers, the Laramie Daily Sun and the Laramie Sentinel, profited greatly from the so-called Wyoming Lottery begun in 1875 by a man named William Pattee. Boswell served as sheriff for nine years, territorial penitentiary warden and then deputy United States marshal. One of the first acts of the Wyoming Territorial Legislative Assembly on Dec. 10, 1869, was to enfranchise women, and Albany County wasted little time putting this law into action. The U.P. Ben Holladay moved the route for his Overland Stage Line from the more northerly Oregon Trail route in 1862 in the belief it would be safer from Indian attacks, and also probably to be closer to Denver, by then booming from the Pikes Peak gold rush. Other coal mining in Albany County has been largely for local consumption. For more information, call (307) 745-3733 or visit the website at http://www.wyomingterritorialprison.com/. But county residents pressed the Wyoming Territorial Legislative Assembly to move the southeastern border with Carbon County so that Albany County would include the mining areas of Centennial, Keystone and Jelm, and in 1886, the assembly agreed. The highway is located in both Albany and Carbon counties. Nye remained with the Sentinel until 1879 and then founded the Laramie Boomerang, named for his beloved mule. The company was succeeded by the Acme Cement Works and others. Albany County is equally rich in natural beauty, which travelers can experience as they cross the Medicine Bow Range on Wyoming Highway 130, known as the Snowy Range Scenic Byway, from Laramie to the Upper Platte River Valley. Albany County boasts the territory’s first woman to serve on a jury and the first woman to vote. Albany County WY Land. Gold was discovered along eastern flank of the Medicine Bow Range in 1874, and the Centennial Ridge District was established there in 1876 (named after the American centennial). Contact Information. The historic site where Butch Cassidy was incarcerated in 1894 hosts an annual Butch Cassidy Festival in June. 7.49% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Albany County, Wyoming Public Records Directory - Quickly find public record sources in the largest human edited public record directory. 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