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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).
Jefferson is a town in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 12 at the 2010 census, a 67.6 percent decline from the figure of 37 in 2000. The population was 12 at the 2010 census, a 67.6 percent decline from the figure of 37 in 2000.
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US 81 bridge over the Chicago & Rock Island RR in 1941. The town was founded in 1890. [5] Its post office was established on January 8, 1896, [6] and was named after its first postmaster, James P. Addington.
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 ...
On Jan. 21, Washington state became home to the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the United States; on Feb. 29, what was then considered the first U.S. death was reported in Kirkland, Wash.
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 ...