Smoky Row Settlement

During the late 1800s, difficult travel and lack of housing did not discourage people from visiting the springs. Upon arrival, some pitched tents, while others cut temporary dugouts into the hillsides. Travelers entering the valley saw smoke from numerous wood stoves and named the area Smoky Row. Although some graves are marked, little is known of those buried in Smoky Row Cemetery during the 1890s. The burial site was no longer used after a new cemetery was established north of Thermopolis in 1900. A local blacksmith created the cemetery's metal cross.

Wyoming · United States