Located in tick-infested woods sits a lonely calaboose. The Skedee Jail has alluded people for decades slowly being reclaimed by nature in a disappearing town. This calaboose is special, it is one of...
Located in tick-infested woods sits a lonely calaboose. The Skedee Jail has alluded people for decades slowly being reclaimed by nature in a disappearing town. This calaboose is special, it is one of...
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...
By 1920 it was evident Hominy needed a bigger hospital to serve the 2,500 residents in Osage County. Miss Winifred Williamson at one point had started taking flu and pneumonia patients into her house...
Slick, Oklahoma is the truest example of an oil town if there ever was one. Starting as just a lone cottonfield it was the discovery of oil by Tom B. Slick that put it on the map. Within a short...
Second Prue School ~1912-1939 The first record I could find of Prue Schools was an article from The Osage Journal, April 25, 1912, reporting of a tornado “The fine farmhouse of Henry Prue was...
It was decided in 1929 that the growing African American population in Fairfax needed a separate school due to Oklahoma laws of segregation. Students were taught at a private residence while Walter L...
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