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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).
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).
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In October 1922, it was announced that Agawam, located on the main line of the Rock Island Railroad, would become a shipping point for a gas field in Grady County, due to its location: four miles from the Oklahoma Gas Company's pumping station. [5] Agawam was described as a "new oil town" in 1923, when an auction of town lots was held. [6]
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 ...
The town also included, what were considered at the time to be, “some of the largest hotels in Northern Oklahoma”. The town also had a considerably financially sound bank. Thee were also four churches, a school which in it had employed three teachers, and freshly created housing areas.
Around the mid-1890s, Center was a leading town in modern-day Pontotoc County. The town had over 500 people. The main area was built circling two wells. The town had a courthouse, twenty-five stores of fluctuating responsibilities, two hotels, and was what considered as a “leading newspaper” by townsfolk.
Zoraya, pronounced "Zoray", is a ghost town in western Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States, west of Miller. A United States Post Office opened at Zoraya, Indian Territory on April 22, 1905, and closed on October 31, 1919. The post office was established by J.A. Kirksey, a white school teacher.