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Best of Wyoming
5:11 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

Wyoming House For Historic Women - Laramie

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Louisa Swain Plaza
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Louisa Swain - First Woman Voter
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By Wyoming House for Historic Women

The Louisa Swain Foundation was established in 2001 (under the former name of The Laramie Foundation). 

Since its inception the Foundation has funded construction of a large plaza and the Wyoming House for Historic Women in historic downtown Laramie, WY.  The centerpiece of the plaza is a life-sized bronze sculpture of Louisa Swain, who on September 6, 1870, became the first woman to cast a ballot under laws giving women full equality to men.  Her ballot was cast just one block from the plaza.

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