Dec 21, 2011
Established in 1953 , it opened as a Steel Foundry called Dalton Precision. Locals complained that Dalton would leave steel dust through the air that would ruin the paint on your car. It was later bought out by Robert Evans in 1980.
There’s not a lot that can be said about Evans besides that it was an industry that produced oil drums back in the...
| Location Class: •Industrial •Commercial |
| City: •Cushing |
| Photographer: •FriendlyMic |
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Apr 21, 2011
Of all the ghost towns in southern Kansas none has more mystique and legends than the defunct town of Le Hunt, which is located northwest of Independence, Ks.
Le Hunt was once a thriving community. The United Kansas Portland Cement Company was the epicenter of the town. A behemoth sized concrete plant constructed in 1905 and built into the side of Table mound....
| Location Class: •Industrial •Ghost Town |
| City: •Le Hunt, KS |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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Jan 15, 2011
Tidewater Oil Company (Tydol) was a major petroleum refining and marketing company in the U.S. for more than 80 years. Tidewater was best known for its Flying A-branded products and gas stations, and for Veedol motor oil, which was known throughout the world.
Tidewater, a national company, built this refinery in the Drumright area. The refinery was the center of...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Drumright |
| Photographer: •Billy! •Fiend |
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Jun 7, 2010
This is the old Morrison Grain storage silo.
The new building of Morrison Grain and Ag Services was founded in May of 2004. Tina and Doug Will along with Billie and Bryan Chrz purchased the existing Morrison Grain and Fertilizer business from Lecia and Kelly Leigh.
They handle bulk feeds, sack feeds, agricultural supplies, and a myriad of products there. ...
| Location Class: •Industrial •Commercial •Farm |
| City: •Morrison |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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Apr 10, 2010
OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS COMPANY
The history of Oklahoma Natural Gas spans a century of petroleum history and illustrates the industrial advances that brought amenities such as public utilities, specifically heat and light, to urban communities throughout the Sooner State. In 1905 two entrepreneurs, Dennis T. Flynn, a former territorial representative to Congress,...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Kellyville |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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Feb 17, 2010
Kaiser Chemicals was opened in 1953 and produced 150,000 tons of urea fertilizer annually at its peak. The 360 acre complex consists of two ammonium plants, two urea plants, a prilling tower for pelletizing urea into fertilizer and livestock feed supplements and support facilities. The plant closed for good in 1985 due to several years of no...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Pryor |
| 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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May 31, 2009
The plant was constructed by OG&E in the 1920s and generated power by burning coal until it was decommissioned in 1983. OG&E sold the plant in 1986. In 1989, the ODOL discovered illegal asbestos removal and salvage operations were occurring at the site and shut down the operations. The building was locked down and secured to prevent trespass and...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Ponca City |
| Photographer: •Fiend •Psychosaw13 |
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May 24, 2009
In 1909 John Bernard Klein founded the J. B. Klein Iron and Foundry Company in Oklahoma City. The company advertised foundry work of all types, including ornamental iron, brass work, wire, stairs, railings, fire escapes, and construction products. By the time Klein died in 1925, the company had begun to specialize in steel works for bridges, buildings, and...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 23, 2009
The Hudson Refinery site is a 200-acre, abandoned, crude oil refinery that was active from 1922 to 1982. Located north and south of State Highway 33 on the west side of Cushing, the North and South Refinery properties include approximately 165 and 35 acres, respectively. Over sixty years of refinery operations resulted in environmental contamination at...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Cushing |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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May 10, 2009
It is still one of the most captivating buildings in Lawton, a multistory fortress of red brick occupying a solid city block, its signature narrow smokestack rising above almost everything else in the downtown industrial zone.
But if it’s still imposing enough to demand attention, in its heyday the Fairmont Creamery at 411 SE Larrance Avenue was not only...
| Location Class: •Industrial •Commercial |
| City: •Lawton |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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