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INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF EVANSTON, WYOMING?

In November, 1868, as grading crews approached the present site of Evanston, Harvey Booth pitched a tent near what is now Front Street and opened a saloon and restaurant. This wooden-floored and canvas-sided structure was Evanston's first building. Within a few weeks of Booth's arrival, the new frontier railroad camp boasted a population of 650 people.
On December 1, 1968, the Union Pacific's rails had reached Evanston where a train depot was constructed the following year. The town was plotted by and named after the railroad's surveyor, James A. Evans. By 1871, the railroad had located its railroad and machine shop and roundhouse, assuring the town's position as a major stop along the UP line.
The Chinese played an important part in Evanston's cultural and economic history. One of Evanston's early landmarks was a section of town called Chinatown. Evanston's Chinatown was composed of modest structures huddled on the west side of the railroad tracks, serving as homes and business dwellings for the Chinese. Among the significant structures in Chinatown were an opium den and an elaborately decorated Joss House. The Chinese worked as laborers for the Union Pacific Railroad and as miners in the Almy coalmines north of town. The Chinese population flourished from the late 1870's to the early 1920's. In 1922 the Joss House mysteriously burned to the ground. While some of the Chinese remained in Evanston, many chose to relocate to follow the mining and railroad booms throughout the west.
In the early 1980's Evanston benefited by the discovery of large resources of natural gas. Population estimates reached as high as 20,000. People moved to the area to work on drilling rigs and build processing plants. Causing a demand on public infrastructure, increases in population resulted in residential, commercial, and industrial growth.