Herbert Woesner began with a vision of a family fun amusement park and after nearby Craterville Park closed due to Fort Sill moving onto the land there was a need for one too. He was a farmer...
Herbert Woesner began with a vision of a family fun amusement park and after nearby Craterville Park closed due to Fort Sill moving onto the land there was a need for one too. He was a farmer...
Sitting just on the outskirts of Stillwater sits the remnants of a once award-winning pig farm run by Oklahoma State University. In 1930 the OSU pig farm just west of the main campus received...
Construction Gray Horse School, which can also be spelled as Greyhorse or Grayhorse, was constructed by the WPA in 1939. The architect who designed it, AJ Love, was a popular designer of 150+...
Completed on October 12, 1926, the Masonic Home For the Aged was a six-story brick L-shaped building. The architects were credited as Hawk & Parr and Campbell & Price being the...
With only a few crosses on the outside of the old St Camillus Catholic Church and a sign with no writing, it’s hard to tell that a Catholic Church was once an active part of Marshall. The...
The Mansion Alexander Tallchief was an Osage Indian who obtained his wealth like many others in the Osage tribe through the 1920’s oil boom. A 10-room structure constructed of terracotta bricks...
History of Native American Boarding Schools Many are unaware of the true horrors that occurred at the more than 526 Native boarding schools across the United States. Organizations like the National...
Mr. Carr donated a small bit of land just 135 by 82 feet, just off of Main Street to build a jail. Tin and timber were gathered from J.W. Chandler and Son Lumber Yard, the only lumber yard in town at...
Summertime. It is every kid’s favorite. School is out and you are care free. For some, going on family vacations was a staple in the summer and a lot of kids spent time at area lakes. There is so...
Today, the quiet town of Marshall sits with a population of around 300 people and a very wide Main street that was once home to parades, large farms, school children playing and an area that...
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...
A calaboose is a tiny jail, like this one there are many scattered in the old towns of Oklahoma. Most built in the early 1900s, they were used to hold inmates for minor crimes such as public...
In 1944, the Catholic Brothers of Mercy, a nursing order of Catholic Brothers, started the organization of St Vincents Home in a residence on North Shartel. After outgrowing the space in a short...
This building was at one time a part of the Dunjee high school in Spencer Oklahoma. Later it was converted into the City-County Head Start Center school. Dunjee All-School-Association or Dunjee Negro...
What happens when entire schools are forgotten? As is increasingly the case with the now-abandoned Skedee School. First constructed of wood in the year 1906, the original school was replaced by a...
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 field...
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