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Colonel Henry B. Carrington, born in 1824, was a 42-year-old Yale educated lawyer when he came to Fort Phil Kearny as commander. He was a Civil War veteran although he never saw battle. When he became commander, he had less combat experience than his subordinate officers. After the Fetterman Fight, Carrington was reassigned from Fort Phil Kearny due to his inability to adapt to frontier warfare and lack of leadership. Carrington died in 1912.

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236 North Carrington Avenue Distance 0.00 miles

Built in 1900, this house has a cedar roof, a wooden balustrade on the second floor, and a roof deck. The house has a two-story bay on the front with three double hung windows. The wrap around porch was added at a later date.

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Lott Street Distance 0.00 miles

Dr. John Howard Lott was born in Pennsylvania in 1853 and attended Lafayette College and Jefferson Medical College. Lott was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army to Fort McKinney in 1884. After serving four years, Lott retired from the army and set up a practice in Buffalo. He died in 1913.

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Father Pierre Jean De Smet of Antwerp, Belgium, was the first recorded Catholic priest in the Buffalo area. Known as “Black Robe” by the Indians, Father De Smet founded Indian missions in the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest from 1838 – 1870. Father De Smet, serving as a consultant for the U.S. Government during Indian treaties, was part of the 1868 peace mission to the Powder River camp of the Lakota Indians. He died in 1873.

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William Henry Harrison Holland was born October 28, 1840. After serving time as a POW at Andersonville during the Civil War, he was discharged in 1865 and came west in 1879. Settling in Buffalo in 1880, Holland founded the Des Moines Cattle Co., raised cattle, and became the first settler in Johnson County to file final proof on his homestead. Holland died in 1906.

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Charles Henry Burritt, a Vermont native, came to Buffalo in 1883 to open a law practice. Burritt, the second mayor of Buffalo, held office during the Johnson County Cattle War. He took part in preparing Wyoming’s state constitution. Burritt died in Reno, Nevada, on June 8, 1927.

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298 North Burritt Avenue: Amelia Austin House Distance 0.00 miles

Amelia Austin had this house built in 1904. It is a single-family, one and a half-story rectangular house made of Buffalo brick with a stone foundation. The gable roof is in the shape of a Greek cross.

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Foote Street Distance 0.00 miles

Robert Foote, born in Scotland in 1832, came to Wyoming in 1856 where he worked as a territorial sheriff, military post trader, farmer, and freighter. In 1882 he arrived in Buffalo and opened the Foote General Merchandise Store. His store burnt down in 1895 and Foote died in Arizona in 1919.

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414 North Burritt Avenue: Peter Watt House Distance 0.00 miles

Built in 1917, this single-family, one and a half-story bungalow has a gable roof and a shed roof over the front porch. The wrap around porch has balustrades.

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568 North Burritt Avenue: Gilkey House Distance 0.00 miles

This single-family, one-story house was built in 1904. There is a gable roof with wood shingles and a half-turret room on the front with a peaked roof. The roof possesses an eyebrow window and ionic columns supporting the wrap-around porch.

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Hart Street Distance 0.00 miles

Major Verling K. Hart served sporadically as commander of Fort McKinney from 1878 to 1883. While at Fort McKinney, Major Hart and his wife Juliet filed a desert claim that included the future site of Buffalo. Hart died suddenly of a heart attack in 1883 and in 1884 Juliet was granted his patent. Anyone who wanted to settle in Buffalo had to buy property from her.

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F. G. S. Hesse, an Englishman born in 1852, traveled to the American West in 1872. He became ranch manager for the Frewen Brothers 76 Ranch from 1878 – 1888. At the same time, he started his own ranch, the 28 Ranch, and was an active businessman of Buffalo. An “Invader” during the Johnson County Cattle War, he returned to Johnson County and continued to operate the 28 Ranch until his retirement in 1924. Hesse died in 1929.

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Charles Hogerson, a native of Sweden, started a blacksmith shop in Buffalo after working for the army at Fort McKinney. He made iron tires for wheels, shod horses, and supplied metal hinges, hooks, weapons, and cooking utensils. Hogerson served as mayor of Buffalo for thirteen years. He died in 1899 at the age of 54.

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George Munkres (the street is spelled incorrectly), born in 1850, drove a bull team from Missouri to New Mexico on the Santa Fe Trail in 1861. He had a lifelong business partnership with Eugene Belmont Mather. They owned the M&M Coal Mine, a general merchandise store, freight company, hardware store, and the M&M Ranch. Munkres died in 1924.

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Born in 1847 in Pennsylvania, Eugene Belmont Mather was a descendant of Cotton and Increase Mather, the Puritan ministers who participated in Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts. Munkres and Mather brought in the first stock of goods when Robert Foote opened his store in Buffalo. Mather died in 1935.

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