Nov 27, 2009
“An institution, founded to transform Indian youth was paradoxically given life by the very people whose tribal identities it was committed to erase”
-K. Tsianina Lomawaima “They call it Prairie Light”
Chilocco was founded in 1884 as an agricultural school for Native Americans. From 1884 until the early 1930s Chilocco operated according...
| Location Class: •School •Ghost Town |
| City: ChiloccoNewkirk |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Fiend •Psychosaw13 |
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Nov 26, 2009
| Location Class: •School |
| City: Muskogee |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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Nov 17, 2009
The first Washington elementary school was built in 1907 at a total cost of $12,000. The original building burned down and was replaced in 1930 with a $60,000 building at Third and Seminole. A 1952 addition of an all-purpose room and classroom cost $73,727.
The last classes were held at this school in May 1978.
The building housed the state Regional...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: Bartlesville |
| Photographer: •Billy! •Psychosaw13 |
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Nov 5, 2009
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: Elmwood |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Nov 4, 2009
Lynn Lane School was built in 1928 and was named after the street on which it was built. Most Tulsa schools are named after a person, so this school is unique in this way. The school was annexed in 1962 and finally closed in 1975. In 1970, a girl was raped and murdered by a laborer and her body was found next door to the school. Also in the 70′s, a...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: Tulsa |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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Nov 3, 2009
This water treatment facility sits on the property of the current water treatment facility for Shawnee. The property is over 100 years old, and is currently being used as storage. The facility lacked the proper gauges to read important levels of flow, and a new facility was built in 1980 and eventually in 2005 the old facility closed for good. The facility has...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: Shawnee |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Nov 2, 2009
This building in Shawnee was built in 1951 to serve Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Once Potawatomie County’s largest single employer, Sylvania closed it’s doors in 1961. 550 people were employed by the company at this Shawnee tube manufacturing plant when it closed. It had an employment peak of 1,002 employees in 1953, with 75% being women. The...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: Shawnee |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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