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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 is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a business route from Interstate 40). The town is also served by State Highway 30. Erick is the second-closest Oklahoma settlement to the Texas border on US 66 or I-40 (Texola is at the border, seven miles to the west).
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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]
It was located on historic U.S. Route 66 in downtown Erick, Oklahoma, Miller's home town. The 3,000 square feet (280 m 2 ) Roger Miller Museum opened at the corner of U.S. 66 (Roger Miller Boulevard) and Oklahoma 30 ( Sheb Wooley Avenue) in 2004 [ 1 ] in a former 1929 café [ 2 ] and drugstore building.
Boggy Depot is a ghost town and Oklahoma State Park that was formerly a significant city in the Indian Territory.It grew as a vibrant and thriving town in present-day Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route between Missouri and San Francisco.
Bickford was a company-made town, located in the Roman Nose Canyon. The canyons walls were topped with thick layers of gypsum that could make things such as cement , plaster , and drywall . In Bickford, the Roman Nose Gypsum Company built a large mill, commissaries , several homes, a hotel for employees, pipelines for water, and other items for ...
Braithwaite was established in 1907, four miles west of Bessie.It was named for J.S. Braithwaite, a stockholder of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. [4] The new town of Braithwaite on the Orient's main line was announced in October 1907; [6] Braithwaite was platted that year. [7]