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The first commercial ferry on the Platte River was established one-half mile south of here in June 1847 by Mormon pioneers on their way to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Brigham Young directed nine men to remain to operate the ferry: Thomas Grover, captain, John S. Higbee, Luke S. Johnson, Appleton M. Harmon, Edmund Ellsworth, Francis M. Pomeroy, William Empey, James Davenport, and Benjamin F. Stewart. Its first passengers were Missourians bound for Oregon. The ferry consisted of two large cottonwood canoes fastened together by crosspieces and covered with slabs, and it was operated with oars.
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Mills, Wyoming · United States
