Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Location of Hughes County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hughes County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
The Calcasieu Lumber Company began operating in 1884 [7] and became the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in 1886. On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Lumber Company purchased the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company, that included two sawmills, 105,000 acres of timberlands, the Lake Charles and Leesville Railroad, and the Lake Charles Chemical Company.
By the time Oklahoma became a state, Fairland was an active farming community. In 1912, the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, later the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), constructed a track through Fairland that crossed the earlier Frisco line. [4] Agriculture remained the mainstay of the local economy until the end of World War II.
After the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (later the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G) constructed a line in 1907 connecting Dustin and Calvin, the Lamar community developed midway between the two towns. A post office was established on July 23, 1907. On September 14, 1907, J. R. Luttrell published the first issue of the weekly Lamar ...
Horntown is the center of a dispersed rural community in Jacobs Township of Hughes County that formed in the 1920s. The earliest inhabitants, according to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, were T. C. Horn and Charley Hawthorn, who operated retail stores, garages, gasoline stations and a restaurant at the crossroads of two section-line roads that are now U.S. Highways 75 and 270.
As the Yeager field developed during the 1920s, the railroad's revenue dramatically increased by transporting lumber, rig timber, and oil-field equipment to the community. By 1918 citizens had established a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ. In 1918 R. L. Polk's Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory estimated Yeager's population ...
Towns in Hughes County, Oklahoma (10 P) This page was last edited on 24 August 2013, at 04:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Pages in category "Towns in Hughes County, Oklahoma" ... Stuart, Oklahoma; Y. Yeager, Oklahoma This page was last edited on 5 October 2013, at 20:44 (UTC) ...