County: Sweetwater

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Longitude:  1085440W

Latitude: 414113N

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Elevation: 6447/1965

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Feature Type: Populated Place

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History:

Thayer Junction Post Office was established as Sycamore Post Office in December, 1906 and changed to Thayer Junction in April, 1909. It was discontinued in November, 1931 and its mail then handled by the Rock Springs Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

Postoffice in Sweetwater County, formerly called Sycamore.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

A station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railroad between Point of Rocks and Salt Wells.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

Stories:

I lived in Thayer Junction in 1935. We lived in "half" of a RR house. The section foreman and his family lived in the north end and we lived in the south end. It was painted RR yellow. One bedroom, a kitchen, and a little sitting room. I slept in the sitting room on a cot. The foreman was Japanese (Tagutis) and had a small son my age. We were almost 5 years old. He and I played along the RR tracks.

We traded in Rock Springs. Rock Springs had several Japanese store owners. Mom bought our greens and veggies at the Japanese market. The filling station at Point of Rocks had a bear pit. The men were playing baseball one Sunday afternoon and the ONLY ball ended up in the bear pit. The women whipped up some flapjacks and syrup--the threw them in one corner and while the bears were eating the flapjacks, one of the men snuck down into the pit and retrieved the baseball--the game went on.

This is part of the Red Desert--man did it get cold in the winter time.

As told by Fred Barber

January 24, 2008 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Thayer Junction

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