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Shawnee Water Treatment Facility

Shawnee Water Treatment Facility

The Shawnee Water Treatment Facility sits on the property of the current water treatment facility for Shawnee. The property is over 100 years old, and is currently being used as storage. The facility...

Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

This building in Shawnee was built in 1951 to serve Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Once Potawatomie County’s largest single employer, Sylvania closed it’s doors in 1961. 550 people were...

Gandini's Circus

Gandini’s Circus

This abandoned circus went on for some time between the 1900’s and 1930, touring across various parts of the states. Fragments of the circus still linger around, including 4 or 5 trailers where...

Dunjee Academy

Dunjee Academy

Dunjee All-School-Association or Dunjee Negro School System began in 1947. The area was known as Green Pastures at this time and had an elementary school, middle school, high school, and a large...

Jefferson Davis School

Jefferson Davis School

Jefforson Davis School was opened for enrollment in August of 1931. It had a long and succesful run serving the south part of the city immediately south of Capitol Hill. Notably it had several oil...

nuway cleaners

NuWay Laundry & Cleaners

(Nu-Way) NuWay Cleaners was constructed in 1918 on the corner of 6th and Western Ave. While there were multiple other NuWay Cleaner businesses around the city, this one stayed in this location during...

Thomas A. Edison School

Thomas A. Edison School

Thomas A. Edison elementary school was completed in 1950 and by December of that year the students and teachers had moved in making themselves at home. It was the typical architecture of that time...

Meridian, OK

Meridian, OK

Meridian received its name from the Indian Meridian on which it is located. This line is used as the main street and also separates the town into two townships. The west half being in Bear Creek...

Shamrock, OK

Shamrock, OK

Shamrock, Oklahoma began as a small farming town and area. The post office of Shamrock was established on July 9, 1910, the first postmaster was James M. Thomas. Thomas was responsible for making the...

Truman Elementary School

Truman Elementary School

The abandoned Truman elementary school caught fire today. Closed for nearly 20 years its fate is definitely sealed. “There was somebody with fireworks and then I saw the smoke coming out of the...

Fallis, OK

Fallis, OK

Fallis was an unusual little town. Located in a wooded area and “on a long red hill,” it became an agricultural center, a railroad town, and an oil community. More importantly, however...

Arcadia School of Environmental Studies

Arcadia School of Environmental Studies

The Arcadia Elementary School has a rich history in the small town east of Edmond. When the school was built in 1950, it was a white-only school. When the all black school Dunbar merged with Arcadia...

Historic Route 66 Filling Station

Historic Route 66 Filling Station

No one knows for sure, but it is thought that the Historic Route 66 Filling Station was built in the late teens or early twenties. It had two pumps, one for regular gas and one for ethyl, which was a...

Lone Star Elementary School

Lone Star Elementary School

Located northeast of the city, the Lone Star school district included nine square miles, had only one school, and 130 elementary pupils. In 1964, voters of the district, opted to join the Oklahoma...

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