A Monument To Engineering: The Midwest Electric Plant

How to find it: Return to Power Plant Road (County Road 116) and continue northwest about one mile; the power plant is a massive structure that can be viewed from a wire gate across the road. This gate is 4.3 miles from the main highway at Midwest. According to Pauline Schultz, curator of the Salt Creek Museum, the public can continue past the gate to get a closer view of the plant. (NE-1/4 Section 36, T41N-R79W)

Oil Derek

About the site: This large concrere and steel power plant was constructed in 1923-1924, the height of the oil boom. In conjunction with a large dam, it supplied electricity for the Salt Creek Field and various camps.

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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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