To All Pioneers

The stone stands south of the river on the grounds of the Homesteaders Museum, in the Union Pacific depot of 1926, closer to the trail than the town that paid for it. The name came long before the town: William Curtis and John Coy rode down the Laramie and North Platte in 1883 to homestead, and Curtis's Torrington post office, named for his Connecticut hometown, opened on his farm in 1889, three miles west of the town the Burlington began serving in May 1900. The Holly Sugar plant opened across the highway in 1926.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Memorial To all pioneers who passed this way to win and hold the West Erected by citizens of Torrington 1931

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Laramie National Historic Site — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Oregon Trail — 0.5 mi
• Stuart's 1812-13 Astorian Party Campsite — 3.9 mi
• The Oregon Trail — 7.3 mi
• Oregon Trail — 9.4 mi