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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).
Ruins of the Annaberg sugar plantation. 81000089 Brown Bay Plantation Historic District: July 23, 1981 Brown Bay: Saint John 78000269 Cinnamon Bay Plantation: July 11, 1978 Cruz Bay: Saint John 78000270 Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins: March 30, 1978 Cruz Bay Saint John Example of an 18th-century rum factory, and ruins of a sugar plantation ...
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Slave traders traveled to farms and small towns to buy enslaved people to bring to market. [2]
Burneyville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Love County, Oklahoma, United States.The post office was established May 5, 1879. It was named for David C. Burney, father of Benjamin Crooks Burney, who had been Governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1878 through 1880.
Fort Washita is the former United States military post and National Historic Landmark located in Durant, Oklahoma on SH 199.Established in 1842 by General (later President) Zachary Taylor to protect citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations from the Plains Indians, it was later abandoned by Federal forces at the beginning of the American Civil War.
The Drummond family is an American ranching family from Oklahoma. The family is one of the largest land-owning families in the state of Oklahoma and the United States. In 2017, the family owned 433,000 acres according to The Land Report magazine. In 2022, the family was the largest land-owning family in Osage County, owning about 9% of the county.
"No Man's Land" was the 170-mile strip of land, a "neutral strip", that was left with no state or territorial ownership from 1850 until 1890. [4] [5] The town started as a cluster of white tents, which gave it its original name, White City. [2] Kansans moved to the area in Oklahoma to start White City due to strict alcohol prohibition laws in ...
website, operated by the Grady County Historical Society 1893 Land Run Museum & Historical Center: Medford: Grant: Red Carpet Country: Local history: Grant County Historical Society - Open Wed-Sat 10-4 & Sun 1-4 [40] Greater Southwest Historical Museum: Ardmore: Carter: South Central: Local history