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Hole.
1890 – Wyoming became a state.
1892 – Population of Jackson Hole had grown to 60 people.
1892 – The first post office was at Marysville, which closed when the Jackson Post Office was opened in 1894.
1894 – Town of Jackson named,
1897 – The Jackson Hole Gun Club built The Clubhouse, which was the first community building.
1897 – President Grover Cleveland set aside the Teton Forest Reserve.
1899 – Deloney’s General Merchandise was the first store to open in Jackson.
1900 – First Jackson Hole census. Approximately 600 people living in the area. Five post offices existed in the valley.
1901 – Hotel belonging to Mary Anderson, which had been located at Antelope Gap, was moved to the Jackson town site, becoming the Jackson Hotel.
1901 – Bill Simpson laid out plans for the town of Jackson, using typical grid format common for the time.
1903-1905 – The first local school was located in The Clubhouse, and then moved to a log building.
1906 – Roy Van Vleck and brother Frank arrived in town and started building a cabin, later opened as Jackson Mercantile.
1907 – William Trester’s first photo of town. Tuttle and Lloyd’s Saloon already visible.
1908 – President Theodore Roosevelt established the Teton National Forest.
1909 – First edition of Jackson Hole Courier published. Population now 1500.
1912 – U.S. Biological Survey Elk Refuge was established.
1914 – Town of Jackson incorporated.
1920 – Jackson elected the nation’s first all-female town council.
1921 – Electricity powered Jackson for the first time.
Pre-1924 – Town square was just a depression covered with sagebrush.
1924 – Town started to improve the square by bringing in dirt to fill it.
1931 – Town brought in plants and landscaping.
1941 – Roads around the square were paved, cutting down dust problems.
Paige hit the save button and shut the laptop down, waiting for the lights on it to click off before slowly closing the top. She’d learned quite a bit about the area since arriving in town, but it was clear that there was much more to learn. It wasn’t as easy as just talking to the locals, though that had been good advice from Susan. She needed to get beyond that, to get to the information that even the locals didn’t have, or didn’t know they had.
She had always been one to trust her instincts. It had worked for her on other articles, such as the famous pirate Blackbeard’s hidden cove on Ocracoke Island, or the quiet life of the Kentucky Shakers near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Sometimes it was worth following a hunch more than just facts. But usually the real payoff came in following both, in finding whatever way the two could weave together and create something not otherwise visible. It was one of the challenges of writing, combining research and imagination. She loved searching for the magic point where the two intersected.
Standing up, she left the small desk area and moved to a front window. The sun was almost gone; only the faded images of twilight remained. She could hear the wind rustle through small patches of sagebrush outside. The screen door creaked a little as the breeze washed through the front porch. There was some sort of mystery in the air. It wasn’t anything she could put her finger on and it wasn’t anything that could be found in any of the research she had done. But it was there, nonetheless. This was the part that intrigued her the most, the instinctual part. She had a hunch that this time it was the factor that would pay off. All she had to do was find the right combination, the right key. She had a feeling somehow that Jake would lead to this. She just had to find out how.
Impulsively, she grabbed a jacket and stepped outside. If following instincts was what she had to do, then that was exactly what she would do. She eased her car out of the dusty driveway and turned out on the road, heading in the direction
1890 – Wyoming became a state.
1892 – Population of Jackson Hole had grown to 60 people.
1892 – The first post office was at Marysville, which closed when the Jackson Post Office was opened in 1894.
1894 – Town of Jackson named,
1897 – The Jackson Hole Gun Club built The Clubhouse, which was the first community building.
1897 – President Grover Cleveland set aside the Teton Forest Reserve.
1899 – Deloney’s General Merchandise was the first store to open in Jackson.
1900 – First Jackson Hole census. Approximately 600 people living in the area. Five post offices existed in the valley.
1901 – Hotel belonging to Mary Anderson, which had been located at Antelope Gap, was moved to the Jackson town site, becoming the Jackson Hotel.
1901 – Bill Simpson laid out plans for the town of Jackson, using typical grid format common for the time.
1903-1905 – The first local school was located in The Clubhouse, and then moved to a log building.
1906 – Roy Van Vleck and brother Frank arrived in town and started building a cabin, later opened as Jackson Mercantile.
1907 – William Trester’s first photo of town. Tuttle and Lloyd’s Saloon already visible.
1908 – President Theodore Roosevelt established the Teton National Forest.
1909 – First edition of Jackson Hole Courier published. Population now 1500.
1912 – U.S. Biological Survey Elk Refuge was established.
1914 – Town of Jackson incorporated.
1920 – Jackson elected the nation’s first all-female town council.
1921 – Electricity powered Jackson for the first time.
Pre-1924 – Town square was just a depression covered with sagebrush.
1924 – Town started to improve the square by bringing in dirt to fill it.
1931 – Town brought in plants and landscaping.
1941 – Roads around the square were paved, cutting down dust problems.
Paige hit the save button and shut the laptop down, waiting for the lights on it to click off before slowly closing the top. She’d learned quite a bit about the area since arriving in town, but it was clear that there was much more to learn. It wasn’t as easy as just talking to the locals, though that had been good advice from Susan. She needed to get beyond that, to get to the information that even the locals didn’t have, or didn’t know they had.
She had always been one to trust her instincts. It had worked for her on other articles, such as the famous pirate Blackbeard’s hidden cove on Ocracoke Island, or the quiet life of the Kentucky Shakers near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Sometimes it was worth following a hunch more than just facts. But usually the real payoff came in following both, in finding whatever way the two could weave together and create something not otherwise visible. It was one of the challenges of writing, combining research and imagination. She loved searching for the magic point where the two intersected.
Standing up, she left the small desk area and moved to a front window. The sun was almost gone; only the faded images of twilight remained. She could hear the wind rustle through small patches of sagebrush outside. The screen door creaked a little as the breeze washed through the front porch. There was some sort of mystery in the air. It wasn’t anything she could put her finger on and it wasn’t anything that could be found in any of the research she had done. But it was there, nonetheless. This was the part that intrigued her the most, the instinctual part. She had a hunch that this time it was the factor that would pay off. All she had to do was find the right combination, the right key. She had a feeling somehow that Jake would lead to this. She just had to find out how.
Impulsively, she grabbed a jacket and stepped outside. If following instincts was what she had to do, then that was exactly what she would do. She eased her car out of the dusty driveway and turned out on the road, heading in the direction
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