This Day In Wyoming History – St. Mark’s Perish Is Consecrated In Cheyenne [VIDEO]

Around the time the railroad was completed in Cheyenne, many chaplains and bishops made their way here, in order to establish church's. St. Mark's was one of them.

It was on this day, in 1868, that Bishop Randall consecrated the new church - St. Mark's Perish, which was the first consecration of a church building in the Cowboy State.

As history would have it, St. Mark's Perish stood on the place where the post office now sits. At some point, the church was loaded up on a flat rail car and moved to Carbon, where there was a coal mining camp.

The church was well used by miners until the camp was abandoned on an unknown date. The church was eventually torn down, with the exception of the cross, which hangs in the vestibule of the 'new' St. Mark's Perish, in Cheyenne.

It's been said that the cross that was erected over the first St. Mark's Perish, was the first ever reared over any structure within Wyoming. St. Mark's Perish was named after  St. Mark's Church, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.