Miners Delight Cemetery - Miners Delight, Wyoming
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Tom.dog
N 42° 31.900 W 108° 40.669
12T E 690712 N 4711422
This is the abandoned cemetery for the ghost town of Miners Delight, which is now overgrown with sagebrush and small pines.
Waymark Code: WM18MYP
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2023
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The Miners Delight cemetery can be reached by driving eastward along Fort Stambaugh Road from Atlantic City. There is a dirt road looping around the cemetery that provides parking for people to visit the preserved buildings in the gold mining ghost town of Miners Delight, just to the north of the cemetery. While the Bureau of Land Management has done some preservation work on the buildings in the ghost town itself, there has been very little work done on cemetery. A split rail fence has been built around the cemetery, and everything inside of the fence is overgrown with sagebrush and several small pine trees. There are three iron fences surrounding grave sites within the cemetery, but there is only one headstone still standing amongst the overgrowth as of my visit to the cemetery in the summer of 2023. I have been unable to find any information online regarding how many people have been buried here. This portion of the South Pass region was first settled in 1867 and called Hamilton City; the name of the town was changed to Miners Delight to following year. Miners Delight was reportedly occupied until the 1970s, at which point this land was purchased by the Bureau of Land Management.
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