Gillespie Place

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Gillespie Place is one of several publicly accessible historic sites administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Lander Field Office in Wyoming.

Gillespie Place was a hotel and mining camp constructed by Sarah F. Gillespie around 1910. Gillespie was a homesteader, entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, single mother, and prospector, at one time referred to as the Copper Queen of Wyoming. She was born in Kansas in 1881, and emigrated to Wyoming in the first decade of the 20th century. The structures at Gillespie Place consist of a small hotel and a stable that Gillespie dubbed “Copper City.” She worked hard to develop a copper district east of Lewiston, but aside from a small mining camp that grew around her hotel between 1912 and 1925, it never materialized. Gillespie lived at her homestead/hotel until at least 1947. She died in 1956 and is buried in Lander, Wyoming.