Torrington is the center of the local farming area and has a fine little museum that focuses on the life of the homesteaders that flooded into Wyoming at the turn of the century, complete with a homestead cabin and a windmill outside. 

Almost from the beginning, this area was the passageway not only to Wyoming, but to the entire west.  In 1812 Robert Stuart and a small group of Astorians, seeking to establish a transcontinental land route for the fur trade, first traveled the general corridor that would later become the Oregon Trail.  They came from the west, crossing over South Pass and eventually stopping for the winter near present day Torrington.  Other trappers and explorers had already traveled through parts of Wyoming, but Stuart's route was the one that would prove itself.