Cabinet Landing in the summer of 1882
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The Henry Villard steamboat of the Northern Pacific Railroad is docked at Cabinet Landing in the summer of 1882. The landing was the construction camp for the building of the railroad. It consisted mainly of tents and shanties but boasted having 33 saloons at one time. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Department and Gary Weisz, local historian.
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Cabinet Landing
Many small communities sprung up along of the Northern Pacific Railroad as the tracks were laid down in 1882 only to become ghost towns a few years later. Cabinet Landing is one such vanished town.
Cabinet Landing began as a steamboat landing at…
