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Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
Erick is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a business route from Interstate 40). The town is also served by State Highway 30. Erick is the second-closest Oklahoma settlement to the Texas border on US 66 or I-40 (Texola is at the border, seven miles to the west).
Pages in category "Ghost towns in Oklahoma" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...
It was located on historic U.S. Route 66 in downtown Erick, Oklahoma, Miller's home town. The 3,000 square feet (280 m 2 ) Roger Miller Museum opened at the corner of U.S. 66 (Roger Miller Boulevard) and Oklahoma 30 ( Sheb Wooley Avenue) in 2004 [ 1 ] in a former 1929 café [ 2 ] and drugstore building.
The West Winds Motel is a historic motel located on old U.S. Route 66 in Erick, Oklahoma.The motel opened in the mid-1940s to serve travelers on Route 66; at the time, tourism drove Erick's economy, and the motel was one of several in the city.
The mining waste was located very near neighborhoods in the town. South Treece Street, 2008. Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State Mining District.
Bickford was a company-made town, located in the Roman Nose Canyon. The canyons walls were topped with thick layers of gypsum that could make things such as cement , plaster , and drywall . In Bickford, the Roman Nose Gypsum Company built a large mill, commissaries , several homes, a hotel for employees, pipelines for water, and other items for ...