To All Pioneers

Lingle's stone went up a year after Torrington's and says one thing Torrington's does not: the trail crossed a mile south, along the North Platte bottoms, while the town grew up beside the railroad. Lingle was named for H. D. Lingle and incorporated on September 7, 1918. When Goshen County was cut from Laramie County in 1911, Lingle contested the county seat with Torrington, about ten miles east, and lost; the courthouse went up in Torrington in 1913. The medallion repeats the wagon side of the Oregon Trail half dollar.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Memorial To all pioneers who passed this way to win and hold the West Trail crossed one mile south Erected by citizens of Lingle and friends 1932

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Laramie National Historic Site — 12 mi
  Old Bedlam, the officers' quarters of 1849, survived the auction that scattered the rest of the post; an 1875 Army bridge still crosses the river.
• Register Cliff State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The first camp out of Fort Laramie, where the oldest date on the rock reads 1829 and three emigrants never left.
• Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site — 22 mi
  The clearest wagon ruts on the trail, worn by iron tires and cut deeper by travelers who hacked at the ledge to get their wagons over.

More markers nearby

• Old Texas Trail — steps away
• Oregon Trail — 2.2 mi
• The Grattan Fight — 3.1 mi
• Oregon Trail — 3.2 mi