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The Calcasieu Lumber Company began operating in 1884 [7] and became the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in 1886. On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Lumber Company purchased the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company, that included two sawmills, 105,000 acres of timberlands, the Lake Charles and Leesville Railroad, and the Lake Charles Chemical Company.
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Fairland, Oklahoma. Pages in category "People from Fairland, Oklahoma" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Location of Hughes County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hughes County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
By the time Oklahoma became a state, Fairland was an active farming community. In 1912, the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, later the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), constructed a track through Fairland that crossed the earlier Frisco line. [4] Agriculture remained the mainstay of the local economy until the end of World War II.
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]
Pages in category "Towns in Hughes County, Oklahoma" ... Stuart, Oklahoma; Y. Yeager, Oklahoma This page was last edited on 5 October 2013, at 20:44 (UTC) ...
Horntown is the center of a dispersed rural community in Jacobs Township of Hughes County that formed in the 1920s. The earliest inhabitants, according to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, were T. C. Horn and Charley Hawthorn, who operated retail stores, garages, gasoline stations and a restaurant at the crossroads of two section-line roads that are now U.S. Highways 75 and 270.
Gerty is located in southern Hughes County 2 miles (3 km) west of U.S. Route 75, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Allen, 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Holdenville and 12 miles (19 km) south of Calvin. [5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Gerty has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.6 km 2), all land. [4]