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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).
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.
Still losing money, the railroad filed for abandonment of its line on August 21, 1923. [2] By a decision of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission dated December 18, 1923, its last day of operation was December 31, 1923, the abandonment being effective January 1, 1924. [2] [5] The rails were removed in July 1924. [5] There is a postscript.
[1] [2] Starting from a connection with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway at Bristow and heading generally southeast, [2] [3] the line was built in 1920 through the Bristow oil field to Slick, Oklahoma, about 12 miles, [1] [4] where a large depot was constructed to handle the crowds that flocked to Slick to "get rich from the gushing black gold."
Lake Murray State Park - 1 hour 32 minutes. Oklahoma's first and largest state park, Lake Murray State Park surrounds its namesake lake and consists of 12,500 acres. You can stay at the park with ...
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The St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway was a small struggling railroad, started by local business interests in the Territorial Capital of Guthrie, Oklahoma. The railroad was built to move freight and passengers from eastern connections at Guthrie, West to the huge Rock Island Railroad hub and system cross roads at El Reno, Oklahoma.
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