Albany County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of 2000, the population was
 32,014. Its county seat is Laramie
and it is home to the University of Wyoming.
Albany County   was organized in 1868

Adjacent counties

* Converse County, Wyoming (north)
* Platte County, Wyoming (east)
* Laramie County, Wyoming (east)
* Larimer County, Colorado (south)
* Jackson County, Colorado (southwest)
* Carbon County, Wyoming (west)

City Laramie; Town Rock River; Census-designated places

* Albany
* Centennial
* The Buttes
* Woods Landing-Jelm

Other communities Garrett; Tie Siding
Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The population was 27,204 at the 2000
census. Located on the Laramie River in southeastern
Wyoming, the city is west of Cheyenne, at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287.

Laramie was settled in the mid-19th century along the Union Pacific Railroad line, which crosses the Laramie River at 

Laramie.

It is home to the University of Wyoming, Wyoming Technical Institute, and a branch of Laramie County Community College.

Laramie Regional Airport serves Laramie.

The ruins of Fort Sanders, an Army fort predating Laramie, lie just south of the city along Route 287. Located in the Laramie

Valley between the Snowy Range and the Laramie Range, the city draws outdoor enthusiasts because of its abundance of

outdoor activities.

Laramie takes its name from Jacques LaRamie, a French or French-Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie

Mountains in the late 1810s and was never heard from again. He was one of the first Europeans to visit the area, and his name

was given to a river, mountain range, peak, US Army fort, county, and city. More Wyoming landmarks are named for him

than any other trapper but Jim Bridger.

Laramie was founded in the mid-1860s as a tent city near the Overland Trail stage route and the Union Pacific portion of the

first transcontinental railroad. By May 10, 1868, when the first train entered town, entrepreneurs were building more

permanent structures, and Laramie soon had stores, houses, a school, and churches.

 

Laramie suffered initially from lawlessness. Its first mayor, M.C. Brown,  resigned after three turbulent weeks in mid-1868,

 saying  that the town was "ungovernable." However, through a series of lynchings and  other forms of intimidation, vigilantes

reduced  the "unruly element" and established a semblance of law and  order.

Also, since Laramie was the first town in Wyoming to hold a municipal election, on September 6, 1870, a Laramie resident was

the first woman to cast a legal vote in the United States.

Early businesses included rolling mills, a tie treatment plant, a brick yard, a slaughterhouse, a brewery, a glass-blowing plant,

and a plaster mill, as well as the railroad yards. In 1886, a plant to produce electricity was built.

A bill signed by Governor Francis E. Warren established   the University of Wyoming (UW) in 1886. Laramie was chosen as the as the site, and UW opened there in 1887. Under the terms of the Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act, UW added

an agricultural college and experiment station in 1891.

 

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