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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).
Erick was established in 1901 as an agricultural community on what would become the edge of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s. [6] It was located on the National Old Trails Road, one of the predecessors to the 1926 numbered US Highway system. Large segments of that road became part of U.S. Route 66. [7]
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Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...
At the intersection with Newman Road, US 69 bends northeast. Just past Newman Road is an exit that takes one back onto Main Street; a sign is currently in place directing travelers to take this exit to remain on Route 66. From here, Route 66 proceeds north through the "back" side of Commerce, Oklahoma. Route 66 turns east at Commerce St. and ...
The plant ordered box after box of “Oklahoma Unforgettable,” a coffee table book of scenes across the state. ... to turn us into a ghost town, but it is going to have an effect on the economy ...
The four men grew up together in Okmulgee, a city that Megan Gordon, Billy Chastain's widow, described as a "very small town" — a place where "everyone's parents knows everyone's parents ...
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]