Here are located the medicinal hot springs once used by the Indians. In the early 1870's William Cadwell homesteaded the land on which the springs are located, built a two room log cabin and a two tub bath house and became the postmaster of "Warm Springs." In 1883 Fenimore Chatterton, post trader at Fort Steele, established a general store at this point and a little later a town site was laid out on both sides of the North Platte River and named Saratoga after Saratoga Hot Springs, New York, to which the springs bore a similarity and because of the great popularity of the latter. (Annals of Wyoming 15:1) "Mr. Caldwell of Warm Springs is in town. He says before long he intends to have the Warm Springs of Wyoming the Saratoga of the West." (Cheyenne Daily Leader, June 23, 1882) The medicinal hot springs which the Indians used many years ago, are located here. The Indians called it "The Place of Magic Water." (Christiansen)
Other Names:
Place of Magic Water, Warm Springs
County:
Carbon
Feature Category:
Manmade Features
More Reading:
Riding the stage through the secnic, historic Saratoga & Encampment Valley. Saratoga, Wyo. : Historical Reproductions by Perue, c2008.; Saratoga and Encampment Railway Company : a railroad operated in the interest of local development : photographic views and description of the Upper Platte River Valley. [United States : s.n., 1905?] Jacob & Holmes)
