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Perry’s Funeral Chapel, known for many years as Rumph Mortuary, is a historic commercial building at 312 West Oak Street in El Dorado, Arkansas.Built in 1927, it is a two-story red brick building, with a three-bay facade topped by a crenellated Gothic parapet.
Bryan County was officially established on November 16, 1907, and Durant was designated as the county seat. [ 5 ] The Bridge War, also called the Red River Bridge War or the Toll Bridge War, was a 1931 bloodless boundary conflict between the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas over an existing toll bridge and a new free bridge crossing the Red ...
In the spring of 1909, two young men came to Durant to enter the newspaper business: R. F. (Bob) Story of Mineral Wells, Texas, and Walter Archibald, of Marietta, Oklahoma. The following year they purchased the Durant Daily News and changed the name to the Durant Daily Democrat. The first issue under the new - and present - name was dated June ...
History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State , American Guide Series , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74– 82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via Google Books
Manila is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,682 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] up from 3,342 in 2010 . It was the hometown of World War I sniper Herman Davis .
Durant (/ d uː r æ n t /) is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 18,589 in the 2020 census . It serves as the capital of the Choctaw Nation , and is the largest settlement on the reservation, ranking ahead of McAlester and Poteau .
In 1886 that portion of the county, along with portions of Atoka County and Kiamitia County, joined to form Jackson County, with its county seat at Pigeon Roost, near present-day Boswell. The Arkansas and Choctaw Railway built through the area in 1902, and missed Bennington by two miles. Some of the buildings were dragged down to the railroad ...
Southeastern Oklahoma State University people (4 C) Pages in category "People from Bryan County, Oklahoma" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.