Name: Sweetwater

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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Other Names: Hopkins

Some sources indicate that Sweetwater was renamed Quealy; we are not able to verify this.

Source: WSL

 

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Sweetwater Post Office was established as Hopkins Post Office in May, 1891 and changed to Sweetwater Post Office on October 19, 1896. Tholemah A. Megeath was the postmaster. It was discontinued on March 15, 1915 and its mail then handled at the Rock Springs Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A coal mining town near the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County, 5 miles southwest of Rock Springs.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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