Rock Creek Water Tower, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, Rock River, Albany County, WY

Significance: The Rock Creek Water Tower is the best preserved of six extant structures of a late 19th-century town that flourished during the early days of the trans-continental railroad. Once a center for the migration and movement of goods into the northern portion of Wyoming and southern Montana, the town of Rock Creek relinquished its plat in 1904; today, it is a ghost town. The water tower is a fitting symbol of this once lively town and a reminder of an active and vigorous chapter in Wyoming's history.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10

Survey number: HABS WY-55-A

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1933 - 1970

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