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Camp Pilot Butte
633 Brider in Rock Springs
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Workers were encouraged by mining companies to migrate to Rock Springs. At one time, more than 56 different nationalities were represented, resulting in Rock Springs being named the “melting pot of Wyoming”. The need for more workers brought Chinese contract laborers to work in the mines in 1875. This precipitated the Chinese Massacre of 1885 when white miners chased the Chinese out of town and burned Chinatown. Soldiers were sent to establish Camp Pilot Butte in the center of Rock Springs and were stationed there until 1898 when the Spanish American War broke out. The officers’ quarters and buildings have been destroyed but the enlisted men’s barracks now serve as a Catholic School. |
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