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Bradley School

Bradley School

Bradley, Oklahoma, even though it is a small town, has a pretty deep history of schools, four buildings to be exact. The first school was a small one-room log house built in 1887 and burned down...

Trail Drive-In Theatre

Trail Drive-In Theatre

Built in 1950, around the same time that the nearby Enid Drive-In was constructed, the Trail Theatre was a single-screen drive-in with a 400-car capacity. The Trail Drive-In Theatre is located south...

cache creek mission

Cache Creek Mission

  Shocked we had not heard of this location before we knew that when it finally was put on our radar it was important to document this piece of Oklahoma and Native American history that is known...

Del Camino Motel

Del Camino Motel

The Del Camino Motel or when it first got its start around 1950 as the Del Camino Courts located in Woodward, Oklahoma, was one of the most interesting examples of a motel that we had ever seen...

first national bank skiatook bank

First National Bank of Skiatook

First National Bank of Skiatook 1911-1929 Sitting just off busy Main Street, a beacon of history towers over the downtown area. The First National Bank – Skiatook was first organized in 1905 as...

Faxon School

Faxon School

On March 14, 1911, the Faxon School House burned to the ground when a fire started from an unknown cause. A new school was constructed of modern stature, including a basement to protect from the...

Avon Motel

Avon Motel

Avon Motel has long been a popularly photographed spot in Eastern Oklahoma, located on the western outskirts of Afton, Oklahoma. Built in 1936 by John Foley, a prominent businessman in the Ottawa...

Clearview Oklahoma

Clearview Oklahoma

Larry O’Dell with the Oklahoma Historical Society said that when the federal government relocated the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations to present-day Oklahoma, the tribes...

Tiger King Park

Tiger King Park

Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park What has now become known as the ‘Tiger King Park’ dates back to 1999 when it was established in rural Oklahoma as the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal...

Carver School

Carver “Colored” School

Erected with the funds from the Separate School fund was the Carver “Colored” School of Hominy. Costing around $20,000 the new buff brick, L-shaped single-story building included four...

Wheatley Elementary School

Wheatley Elementary School

The start and many beginning years of the Wheatley Elementary School are mostly a mystery. But thankfully, the date it was built is engraved in the name stone above the door, 1929. In the 1950s, the...

Joy School

Joy School

Joy School came to fruition after three rural schools, Carr Flat, Talley, and Wheeler, consolidated. consolidated their districts into one. Students of the new district were asked what the new school...

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