Name: Borie

 

County: Laramie

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1045944W

Latitude: 410526N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6617/2017

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Locale, Railroad Station, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

Borie Railroad Station was named as early as 1884 possibly for A. J. "Andy" Borie. He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad as a night dispatcher, chief train dispatcher of the Mountain Division and private secretary to the  general superintendent in Cheyenne from circa 1876-1882.

Source:  WSL

 

Other Names: 

 

Alternative Spellings:

 

History:

Borie Post Office was established on February 28, 1895 with Martha E. Knight as postmaster. It was discontinued on February 14, 1901 and its mail then handled by the Granite Canon Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railroad between Corlett and Otto.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

 

UP's mainline splits at Borie, Wyoming, 10 miles west (of Cheyenne) Two main tracks head west to Sherman (on the Sherman Hill grade over the Laramie Mountains), along I-80, as the old main. Two tracks also head south to Speer, with one track continuing west out of West Speer through Harriman. At Speer, the mainline to Denver heads south.

Source: Ingles

 

In February, 1910, Union Pacific Railroad announced that passenger trains would begin use of the Borie Cutoff  from Laramie to Denver, bypassing Cheyenne.

Source: Laramie Daily Boomerang, February 14, 1910

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Borie

 

Newspapers:

 

More Information: 

Cheyenne Weekly Leader

September 14, 1882

 

Cheyenne to Laramie over Sherman Hill: A Chronology

 

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