Lewis Camp (Camp No. 3)

How to find it: Return to the highway (State Route 387) and turn east toward Midwest. Turn north onto the oil field road located about .1 mile west of the Salt Creek bridge. Proceed north about .6 mile; at a junction bear right; Lewis Camp is about .1 mile to the northeast, located on a gentle slope with several hand-planted trees. (SW/NW Section 13, T40N-R79W)

Oil Derek

About the site: Lewis Camp once contained four roos of twenty-five houses with landscaped trees and hedges, some of which still mark this site. Although all of the oil camps were dismantled, this remains one of the better preserved with 54 building depressions/foundation. Two north-south streets and three east-west streets can still be seen. The relative importance of Lewis Camp can be inferred frorm its concrete sidewalks, a sewer system with man-hole covers and cisterns, and plumbing and natural gas systems.

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Stop 1 A Symbol of Scandal: Teapot Rock · Stop 2 Not a Trace: Teapot Townsite · Stop 3 New Lavoye: The Palm Beach of Wyoming · Stop 4 Teapot Dome (Naval Petroleum Reserve): Watergate of the 1920s · Stop 5 Pumping Station/Storage Tank Facility · Stop 6 Old Lavoye: Picked Up and Moved · Stop 7 The North-South Railroad: Remnants of a Grand Scheme · Stop 8 Gas Plant Camp, Midwest's Major Suburb · Stop 9 Salt Creek Oil Field Interpretive Sign and Oil Derrick · Stop 10 Canadian Camp · Stop 11 Midwest Cemetery · Stop 12 Lewis Camp (Camp No. 3) · Stop 13 Jackass (IBA) Spring · Stop 14 The First Well: Shannon Pool Oil Field; Shannon Camp · Stop 15 A Monument to Engineering: The Midwest Electric Plant · Stop 16 Midwest: Where "Democracy and Fairness Predominates"

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