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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).
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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]
A Santa Fe rail spur between Three Sands and Marland, Oklahoma was abandoned in August 1942. [5] [6] The high school closed in 1946; the last retail establishment, a grocery store, closed in 1951; and, the final blow was the closure of the post office in 1957. [1] The settlement joined the ranks of Kay/Noble Counties' oil-boom ghost towns. [7]
Autwine is a ghost town in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States, formerly known as Pierceton and Virginia City. [1] The town was named for a prominent citizen and leader of the Ponca Nation named Antoine Roy. [2] It had a post office as Pierceton from May 26, 1894, and as Autwine from March 5, 1903, until June 30, 1922. [3]
There was a forbiddance of alcohol and saloons in the village. A post office for the town was created in 1901 under the alias of “Higbee”. In 1902, the name finally changed to “Corbett”, with the post office lasting until 1907. A few years after this, two stores and a sorghum mill were added to the town. The children in the village ...
It was a market town for the surrounding area and had two large elevators as well as other amenities. But the bank closed in 1927, and a fire destroyed half the town in 1929. Most of the buildings were never rebuilt. Oklahoma State Highway 34, constructed in 1931, bypassed the town to the east, accelerating the decline. [3] The school closed in ...