Jun 27, 2009
The Arcadia Elementary School has a rich history in the small town east of Edmond. When the school was built in 1950, it was a white-only school. When the all black school Dunbar merged with Arcadia, the small school faced an uncertain future when many of the white students parents pulled them from the school and moved them to other schools so they...
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| City: •Arcadia |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 25, 2009
This is one of the last old gasoline filling stations still standing in this part of the country. No one knows for sure, but it is thought to have been built in the late teens or early twenties. It had two pumps, one for regular gas and one for ethyl, which was a little higher octane. Oil was dispensed from a 50-gallon drum, which was laid down on its side on a...
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| City: •Arcadia |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 25, 2009
Located northeast of the city, the Lone Star school district included nine square miles, had only one school, and 130 elementary pupils. In 1964, voters of the district, opted to join the Oklahoma City Public School system with 172 of 300 eligible voters casting their votes. However, just over 10 years later in 1976, the Lone Star school closed its doors as an...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Edmond•Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 21, 2009
Originally built as the Lowell School, and renamed Douglas High School around 1935, this magnificent structure served the once segregated black students of the east side of Oklahoma City until de-segregation began around 1969. After this, the new Douglas High School was built and its students moved a few blocks east to its current location. Re-branded as Page...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 21, 2009
Owned by the Edwards family, Preachers Wall is one of the several homes in the Red Ridge valley. Preachers Wall was the home of Archibald Edwards and his wife Sarah. Judging by some of the material we found, our best guess is that the Edwards’ left the home in 1994.
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| Location Class: •Residential |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 20, 2009
No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty halls of Lincoln Plaza
Steve Lackmeyer. “No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty halls of Lincoln Plaza.” Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) 22 Sep. 2007, CITY, BUSINESS: 1B. NewsBank Access World News. [UCO Library, Edmond, OK]. 19 Jun. 2009. .
No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 19, 2009
This water park can be found in the small community of Oolagah, right off Highway 88. Oolagah is probably best known for being the birthplace of aviation legend Will Rogers, but is also home to this wonderful Abandoned Oklahoma place. During the 50′s and 60′s, the state was busy building lakes for water supply and tourism. Out of this massive project...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Amusement Park |
| City: •Oolagah |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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Jun 18, 2009
Pulled from the Nowata County Website:
The City of Nowata is located in the south central section of the county on the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, not far from the Verdigris River. It is now a flourishing city of 5,000 people and is supplied with a system of water works, electric lights, telephones, natural gas, paved streets, cement sidewalks and all...
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Jun 17, 2009
A little history on the MKT Railroad:
When it incorporated in May 1870 the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad immediately acquired the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch and its 182 miles (293 km) of track. The Union Pacific Railway was, for a period of several years in the late 1800s the official name of the Union Pacific Railroad who later acquired MKT as...
| Location Class: •Railroad |
| City: •Bartlesville |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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Jun 7, 2009
According to City Council Resolution documents, 7.2 acres was purchased through a grant authorized by Title VII of the Housing Act of 1961 and more land was conveyed to the City from W.K.Y. Television Inc. a Delaware Corporation over time in January of 1964. The parks department sold the park (29.15 acres more or less) in the time period of...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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