Rawlins

This tablet points away from itself: the spring it describes lies half a mile southwest, where the same society set a twin bronze that year. Rawlins already had a bronze of his own. In 1872, at Grant's request, Congress paid for a statue of him in Washington, cast from captured Confederate cannon and set up in Rawlins Park in 1874. In the early 1960s Wyoming's congressman William H. Harrison tried to have it moved here, to the city that carries his name, and failed. The statue still stands at 18th and E Streets.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site — 15 mi
  A fort built in 1868 to guard the Union Pacific's North Platte crossing, which became the collecting yard for railroad ties floated down the river.

More markers nearby

• Wyoming State Penitentiary — 0.3 mi
• Rawlins Springs — 0.5 mi
• Rawlins Paint Mines — 2.5 mi
• The Parco Inn — 6.5 mi