C.H. "Dad" Worland

The man on the stone ran a saloon before the town had a name. Charles Henry Worland's 1900 dugout here was remembered as the Hole-in-the-Wall Saloon, where he also cashed customers' checks, carrying them to Thermopolis each week for hard money, and he became first postmaster of the office named for him. He gathered more than eight hundred acres along Fifteen Mile Creek, and the ranch, the original townsite and this stone are listed together on the National Register. In 1919 he and his son left for Denver, and the ranch went to the Wyoming Sugar Company.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hot Springs State Park — 27 mi
  Wyoming's first state park: a thousand feet of banded travertine along the Bighorn, a 1916 swinging bridge, and a small bison herd on the hill.

More markers nearby

• Worland Sugar Factory — steps away
• Worland: Original Town Site — steps away
• Bridger Trail - Bighorn River Crossing — 19 mi
• Hot Springs State Park — 27 mi