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The city of Broken Bow, Oklahoma started as a private development by a subsidiary of the Choctaw Lumber Company. [12] The Dierks sawmill in town was one of the largest mills in the United States. [12] The name of the town came about from Broken Bow, Nebraska, the previous home of founders Herman and Fred Dierks. [13]
The steam sawmill had been destroyed; what remained was a massive pile of sawdust in a clearing with the Confederate earthworks; all around was dense woods. Many of the soldiers remembered the sawdust pile in memoirs and it provided a focus of the fighting that afternoon.
Grant is an unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. [3] It is located along U.S. Route 271 , south of Hugo . [ 4 ] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 289.
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One of the largest and most historic steam engines in the world will speed through Oklahoma as part of a tour across America. 'Big Boy' by the numbers: Historic steam engine passes through ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Oklahoma that are designated on the National Register of Historic Places. Listings are distributed across all of Oklahoma's 77 counties . The following are approximate unofficial tallies of current listings by county.
Location of Grant County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude ...
Monroe High School was built in the 1920s. Since the construction of the Interstate 5 highway in the 1960s, the city has turned into a rural farming community. It is the site of the historic Hull-Oakes Lumber Mill, the only steam-powered sawmill operating in the U.S. [ 8 ]