Historical Marker
Charcoal Making
Uinta County · Wyoming
The business the panel explains collapsed on price before the railroad left. Charcoal brought 27 cents a bushel at the height of demand and only 7 cents in the declining years, and by the end of the century coke, easier to come by and easier to control, had taken its place in the smelters. The kilns took whatever the slopes gave them: the 1971 National Register nomination notes that at Piedmont even the smaller trees and limbs proved suitable for charcoal.
Where it stands
41.21983, -110.61983 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Union Pacific Railroad (Piedmont) — steps away
- Piedmont Kilns — steps away
- Town of Piedmont — steps away
- Charcoal Kilns (Piedmont) — steps away