Andy Chambers Ranch Historic District
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The Andy Chambers Ranch is the only remaining nearly complete farmstead in Mormon Row
, itself a historic district in Grand Teton National Park
. The locale was settled by Mormon
migrants between 1900 and 1920, creating an enclave near the Gros Ventre River
. The farmstead dates to the 1920's and includes a house, barn, garage and a variety of outbuildings.
The Mormon Row was a line village, similar to Grouse Creek, Utah
, with a relatively dense development stretched along the line of the connecting road, allowing for extensive pasturage along either side behind the houses and buildings.
The Andy Chambers Ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places
on April 23, 1990.
Mormon Row Historic District
Mormon Row is a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape's period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers, T.A. Moulton and John Moulton...
, itself a historic district in Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Park consists of approximately and includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Only south of Yellowstone...
. The locale was settled by Mormon
Mormon
The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
migrants between 1900 and 1920, creating an enclave near the Gros Ventre River
Gros Ventre River
The Gros Ventre River is a tributary of the Snake River in the state of Wyoming. It rises in the Gros Ventre Wilderness in western Wyoming, and joins the Snake River in the Jackson Hole valley. In 1925, the massive Gros Ventre landslide dammed the river and formed Lower Slide Lake...
. The farmstead dates to the 1920's and includes a house, barn, garage and a variety of outbuildings.
The Mormon Row was a line village, similar to Grouse Creek, Utah
Grouse Creek, Utah
Grouse Creek is an unincorporated community in the nearly unpopulated northwestern region of Box Elder County, Utah, United States, near the Idaho and Nevada borders. It lies along unpaved roads north of State Route 30 in the Grouse Creek Mountains. Its elevation is 5,331 feet...
, with a relatively dense development stretched along the line of the connecting road, allowing for extensive pasturage along either side behind the houses and buildings.
The Andy Chambers Ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
on April 23, 1990.
External links
- Mormon Row at Grand Teton National Park
- Andy Chambers' Ranch House, Mormon Row Road, Kelly vicinity, Teton County, WY: 5 drawings, 1 photo, 7 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey
- Andy Chambers Homestead at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office