[2] It was established by the Louisa Swain Foundation, which honors Louisa Swain, the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election.
She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming.
[5] The Wyoming State Historical Society says Swain was "the first woman in the world to cast a ballot under laws giving women and men equal voting rights".
[6] The Johnson Lummis Hunkins Plaza is outside the Wyoming House for Historic Women.
A statue of Louisa Swain in her honor was dedicated in the Johnson Lummis Hunkins Plaza in 2005.