Name: Eden

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1092613W

Latitude: 420303N

 

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Elevation: 6614/2016

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Named by the Mennonites, who settled there, as a "Land of Promise."

Source: Annals 14(3)  

 

Named by the Mennonites who settled there. Eden Valley irrigation project is one of the largest in Wyoming. At Eden is the crossing where Horace Greeley spent the night of August 16, 1859 in a log house, which was the only one between Fort Bridger on the Black's Fork and Old Fort Laramie.

Source: WPA

 

Other Names: Francis

 

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History:

Eden Post Office was established as Francis Post Office in April, 1907 and changed to Eden in October, 1908. It was discontinued in June, 1926 but re-established in April, 1928. 

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Postoffice and small town in Sweetwater County, formerly known as Francis, 75 miles north of Evanston, the county seat.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Farson

 

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