Historical Marker

First Post Office

Historical marker location:
477 North Main Street, Thayne, Wyoming
( Marker is on North Main Street (U.S. 89) near Wright Street, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1963

Wyoming was the first state in the US to grant women the right to vote. On December 10, 1869, Wyoming Governor John A. Campbell signed the first women's suffrage bill into law, making Wyoming the first government in the world to grant women the right to vote and to hold public office.