Daniel (Wyoming)

Sublette County

56-18950

Daniel is a census -designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming with 89 inhabitants ( 2000). The village lies at 2150 m at the headwaters of the Green River below the western flank of the Wind River Range. Through the village runs in a north -south U.S. Highway U.S. 189, just north of the village branches off U.S. 191 to the east.

History

1832 built the Trapper Benjamin Bonneville near the present-day village of Fort Bonneville, the first building of the Rocky Mountains west of the main ridge, there were but because of poorly chosen location in the same year. From 1833 onwards, almost all annual Rendezvous found those meetings of the fur traders held here. The place of the meeting is reported since 1961 under the name of Upper Green River Rendezvous Site as a National Historic Landmark.

The present town was developed from homesteads in the 1890s. It is named after Thomas Pixley Daniel, who settled in 1899 and 1900 except a shop for the settlers opened the first post office in the region. In the same year the village was formally registered. In 1905 a school was established, the hotel of the place in 1909 got a telephone connection. In 1917 the still existing fish farm was established. The school closed in 1939, since the children of the village to go to school in the 20 km eastern county seat Pinedale. The school building now houses the Daniel Community Center.

Monuments

Except for the Upper Green River Rendezvous Site as a National Historic Landmark is the former school building, the historic ENP Bridge over Green River in 1905 and the place where Father DeSmet in 1840 on the Rendezvous, the first Catholic Mass held in Wyoming, in the National Register of Historic Places entered.