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In 1867 a consortium of Charles E. Kearney, Robert T. Van Horn, and Kersey Coates persuaded the railroad to build a cutoff at Cameron to Kansas City, Missouri. The railroad, through its subsidiary Kansas City and Cameron Railroad, built a shortcut and the (1,371-foot (418 m) Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River in downtown
Spelter City is a populated place within the city of Henryetta, Oklahoma. [1] [2] It is located northeast of Henryetta’s town center, and west of Dewar, Oklahoma.[3]The area was originally a separate platted addition formally called the Henryetta Townsite Company, but which Henryetta annexed in 1916.
The Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway was incorporated October 24, 1904, under the laws of the then Territory of Oklahoma, for the principal purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from a point on the Missouri-Oklahoma State line to a point on the Red River, Okla.
The highway no longer meets the former route of its parent, U.S. Route 66 (US 66), and is closely paralleled by Interstate 40 (I-40), which replaced US 266 (along with accompanying routes US 62 from Oklahoma City to Henryetta and US 64 from Warner to the Arkansas border west of Fort Smith, Arkansas) as the major east–west highway east of ...
The Ozark Trail ran through southwest Missouri and across Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and on into New Mexico. [5] Much of this route became the famed U.S. Route 66 . The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1925, which finally incorporated the Deep South into the Federal roads program , made the group's basic functions obsolete and it disbanded.
Authorities in Henryetta, a town 90 miles east of Oklahoma City, made the gruesome discovery on Monday morning after 39-year-old Jesse McFadden failed to show up in court to stand a jury trial on ...
An independent entity called the Oklahoma City Junction Railway was incorporated in Oklahoma on June 10, 1909. [3] [6] Its primary purpose was to operate a terminal (principally consisting of stock pens) in the stockyards district of OKC, but the project included 1.724 miles of mainline and 3.779 miles of yardtracks and sidings, and was built between April and October of 1910. [6]
Following the No. 1 Longhorns 34-3 romp over the Sooners, Texas defensive players Anthony Hill Jr. and Barryn Sorrell took a Baker Mayfield No. 6 Oklahoma jersey and placed it at the 50-yard line ...