Mormon Ferry, Probable Second Site

sign located approximately one-half mile south of the Probable Second Mormon Ferry crossing of the North Platte River

Location: North Casper Park, Casper. Take Exit 186 from Interstate 25, turn north onto Bryan Stock Trail to "K" Street, turn west and travel 0.4 mile to the park, which is a baseball/soccer complex. There is a large interpretive sign commemorating the ferry just east of the baseball grandstand. To visit the locale of the Mormon Ferry Second Site, turn right at the easternmost (first) entrance to the baseball/soccer complex. Travel in a northerly direction along a winding park road for approximately one-half mile. You will arrive at a Platte River Parkway footbridge across the North Platte River. You are now in the vicinity of the Mormon Ferry Probable Second Site.

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History: When Brigham Young's Pioneer Company left the "Last Crossing" on June 19, 1847, Young detailed nine men to remain behind to run the ferry during high water for emigrant traffic. However, they soon moved the ferry downstream about five miles to compete with a rival outfit that had begun ferrying emigrants. The Mormon Ferry may have been moved several times during its six years of operation, but in 1849 the mileage records of Captain Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers document it at this site.

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