Platte Bridge Cemetery

Historical marker location:

4001 Fort Caspar Road, Casper, Wyoming

( Marker is on Fort Caspar Road west of South West Wyoming Boulevard (Wyoming Highway 258), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1988

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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.