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On January 5, 1914, the commissioner form of government was formally adopted by the City of Cheyenne. Cheyenne was proclaimed to be "a City of the First Class" organized under the provisions of the State of Wyoming with all the powers and obligations thereto on July 9, 1945.
1914 - City adopts commissioner form of government. [20] 1920 - Lincoln Highway surfaced near Cheyenne. [21] 1928 - High Plains Horticulture Research Station established. 1929 - Boeing Terminal built at Cheyenne Airport. 1930 - Cheyenne Little Theatre Players founded. 1937 - Wyoming Governmental Research Association headquartered in Cheyenne. [22]
Cheyenne's government consists of a mayor and a city council, elected on a non-partisan basis. The mayor is elected in a citywide vote. The current Mayor, Patrick Collins, a bicycle shop owner, took office on January 4, 2021, with a term ending January 6, 2025.
In the 1870s the town became an outfitting point for the Black Hills goldfields to the northeast and a major shipping point for cattle from Texas. Its own grazing lands became famed for Hereford herds and wealthy cattle barons.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 30, 2017 · Wyoming historian T.A. Larson noted that Cheyenne spent six months as an end-of -tracks town, “a much longer period than was allowed to any other Wyoming town.” Cheyenne merchants, he explained, supplied goods to railroad camps on Sherman Hill and also to Colorado towns as the Kansas Pacific Railroad built toward Denver.
A town was founded and the railway was soon completed, crossing over Crow Creek, a branch of the meandering South Platte River. The area was briefly referred to as 'Crow Creek Crossing', although is was soon named as Cheyenne, to honor this famous American Indian tribe of the Great Plains.
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Jun 30, 2017 · Back of the Depot in 1908. Wyoming State Archives/courtesy. Imagine Cheyenne without a house, store, street, or even a tree. Add to that the absence of schools, churches and parks and the almost...
