Name: Peru

 

County: Sweetwater

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1093508W

Latitude: 413259N 

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6384/1946

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

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History:

A station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railway between Green River and Bryan. From Peru station the traveler may catch glimpses toward the southwest of the high peaks of the Uinta Mountains, in northwestern Colorado.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States 

 

On January 27, 1887, Peru, a railway town, 8 miles west of Green River, Wyoming, was destroyed by fire.

Source: Historical Record, 1887

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Peru

 

Newspapers:

 

More Information: 

"A Town Destroyed." Cheyenne Daily Sun. January 30, 1887, page 2.

 

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