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Evans Cushing Industry

December 21, 201118 comments | City/Town: •

Established as Dalton Precision in 1953, it opened as a Steel Foundry. Locals often complained that Dalton was steel dust through the air that would ruin the paint on your car. until 1980 when the...

Evans Cushing Industry

Hudson Refinery

May 23, 20091 comment | City/Town: •

The Hudson Refinery site is a 200-acre, abandoned, crude oil refinery that was active from 1922 to 1982. Located north and south of State Highway 33 on the west side of Cushing, the North and South...

Evans Cushing Industry

Santa Fe Depot – Cushing

May 23, 20094 comments | City/Town: •

The Santa Fe Cushing Depot was built about 1918 and abandoned in the 1980s. When rail service disappeared, the rails were ripped up and there was talk of tearing down what some say is the “best...

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Norfolk School (DEMOLISHED) - https://AbandonedOK.com/norfolk-school/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL ARTICLE AND PHOTO GALLERY, FOR FREE!) Although the final graduating class at Norfolk High had only 5 graduates, the 11 room brick school closed its doors in 1968. The school grew up in wealth surrounded by a panorama of glistening oil tanks near Cushing. The school was built in 1922 in Payne County. The school has enjoyed a colorful record, heavily fringed in the oil boom wealth of the early 1920s....FINISH THE ARTICLE BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #abandonedschool #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma #oklahoma #history #traveloklahoma #demolition
Bradley School (BURNED DOWN) - https://AbandonedOK.com/bradley-school/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL ARTICLE AND PHOTO GALLERY, FOR FREE!) 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 before 1905. In 1905 a second school was built using donations from the community and was destroyed by a tornado just a year later. A third school was constructed the next year, this time with state funding, thus the birth of Bradley School Distr......CONTINUE READING BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma #oklahoma #history #abandonedschool
Trail Drive-In Theatre - https://AbandonedOK.com/trail-drivein-theatre (👆CLICK TO SEE FULL ARTICLE AND PHOTO GALLERY, FOR FREE!) 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 of the highway and Enid Drive-In was north of... FULL ARTICLE BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma #oklahoma #history
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Orphanage of Carmen - https://AbandonedOK.com/odd-fellows-home-carmen/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL ARTICLE AND PHOTO GALLERY, FOR FREE!) The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Orphanage of Carmen, Odd Fellows Home - Carmen for short is just one of two homes located in Oklahoma. Its sister site was built in Checotah in 1902 to cover the eastern portion of the state and this one was built in Carmen to cover the western portion of... READ FULL ARTICLE, LINK BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #history #oklahoma #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma
Cache Creek Mission - https://AbandonedOK.com/cache-creek-mission/ (👆CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL ARTICLE & GALLERY, FOR FREE!) Located in the heart of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation, it dates all the way back to 1889. A gentleman by the name of William Work Carithers traveled from Pennsylvania with a mission to bring Christianity and skills to the Native Americans in what would become Oklahoma. He established the Cache Creek Indian Mission under the Reformed Presbyterian Church.....READ REST OF ARTICLE BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma #oklahoma #history #nativeamerican #NativeAmericans #nativeamericanhistory
Washington Separate School of Stillwater (FOR SALE) - https://abandonedok.com/washington-school-stillwater/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL ARTICLE AND PICTURE GALLERY, FREE!) From 1900 to 1938 African American students living in the Stillwater community could only attend up to eighth grade locally. With no separate high school, they would have to move to Oklahoma City, Norman, Guthrie, Tulsa, or Langston. That was until 1938 when the African American citizens of Stillwater rejoiced at the news that a new separate high school would be... REST OF ARTICLE AT LINK BELOW! https://AbandonedOK.com #history #oklahoma #abandonedoklahoma #abandonedok #abandonedplaces #abandonedschool #abandonedschools
Hissom Memorial Center (DEMOLISHED) - AbandonedOK.com/hissom-memorial-center/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL HISTORY/PHOTOS) In the 1950s Oklahoma's mental health facilities Enid and Pauls Valley State Schools were suffering from severe overcrowding. In addition, they both were decades old, built around statehood. A children's facility was needed to provide modern care and comfort and building such a facility became a priority for Governors Raymond Gary and J. Howard Edmondson. Only a million dollars was approved for a new state school in 1958 but Person Woodall, chairman of the Mental Health Board estimated the new school would cost more around seven million dollars....READ FULL STORY BELOW AbandonedOK.com #history #oklahoma #abandonedoklahoma #abandonedok #abandonedplaces #abandoned #demolition #abandonedstatehospital #abandonedhospital
Del Camino Motel (DEMOLISHED) - AbandonedOK.com/del-camino-motel/ (👈CLICK TO SEE FULL HISTORY AND PICTURES) 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. Reminding us of the Rio Siesta Motel with its Texas-style design. The motel was furnished with Franciscan furniture, tile baths, carpeted floors, panel ray heating, and electric blankets. It was owned by the wonderful Ogden family who poured their heart and soul into the business for ten years....READ MORE BELOW AbandonedOK.com #traveloklahoma #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedok #abandonedoklahoma #oklahoma #history

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