Wyoming National Guard Stable, Newcastle Wyoming

This is the former stable for the Wyoming National Guard in Newcastle, Wyoming.  The Armory was downtown, and no longer stands.  

The reference to the 3d Infantry Regiment, Wyoming National Guard, is curious as this building was built for the 115th Cavalry in the 1930s by the WPA.  The 3d Infantry sign might have come from the old Newcastle Army downtown.  Wyoming had infantryman and artillery prior to World War One, but after the Great War it was switched over to cavalry, at a point in time in which the Army was expanding cavalry in the National Guard in an effort to insure that static warfare, such as had happened in World War One, did not reoccur.

In the 1960s the old armory downtown was torn down, by which time a new one was located next to this armory, which was on the edge of town (and still basically was).  Newcastle no longer has a National Guard unit, and that building is used by the State in some other capacity. This transformation, resulting form the elimination of the Guard's presence from a small town, has been very common throughout the country.  Now, the nearest National  Guard unit may be in Gillette, which is quite some distance away.

This building ins now the Anna Miller Museum in Newcastle.