Lusk Water Tower
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The Lusk Water Tower was built in 1886 to provide water for steam locomotives on the former Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, at Lusk, Wyoming. Lusk itself was built by the railroad at the same time. The tank was originally located in the middle of Lusk near the railroad depot and was moved in 1919 to the present site on the east edge of town, adjacent to what became the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company line now owned by Union Pacific.[1]
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The water tower was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[2]
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- Template:NRHP url at the National Park Service's NRHP database
- Lusk Water Tower at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
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- Buildings and structures in Niobrara County, Wyoming
- Infrastructure completed in 1886
- Towers completed in 1886
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
- Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places
- Towers in Wyoming
- Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
- Chicago and North Western Railway
- National Register of Historic Places in Niobrara County, Wyoming
- Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
- 1886 establishments in Wyoming Territory