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Jan 3, 2012

Dunjee All-School-Association or Dunjee Negro School System began in 1947. The area was known as Green Pastures at this time and had an elementary school, middle school, high school and a large field house shared by all three schools. The residents of the Dunjee area had long suffered at the hand of segregation in Oklahoma. Before 1963 it was part of the Choctaw...

Location Class: •School

City: •Spencer

Photographer: •FriendlyMic

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Dec 16, 2011

Opening as a middle school in 1928, Sunnyside was built on donated land.  The piece of land that was donated specifically for use as a school.   The school was closed in the 1970′s due to low enrollment.  Since the property is no longer being used as a school there is a dispute as to the ownership of the property.

Location Class: •School

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •FriendlyMic

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Nov 15, 2011

After the forceful Indian removals from the Eastern Untied States, President Grant and others in office decided that the only way to get the Indians to settle peacefully on their new reservations that they would need to be Americanized. They would need to loose their traditional ways of thinking and living. In the eyes of the officials the Indians would in turn...

Location Class: •School •Government

City: •Concho

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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Sep 1, 2011

Colony Public School in northeastern Washita County is the town of Colony,OK.  The community took its name from the Seger Colony founded by John Seger.  The remains of the Colony Public School occupies the former grounds of the Seger Indian School . John H. Seger was born in Geauga County, Ohio, February 23, 1846, and died February 6, 1928, at Seger Colony,...

Location Class: •School

City: •Colony

Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda

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Mar 7, 2011

Consolidated District No 5 is located in a small abandoned town in Pottawatomie county known as Harjo.  Harjo was an unincorporated community and had a post office established June 24, 1921.  Mail service was discontinued on August 31, 1954. Little is known about the history of the school.  It was built in 1930 along with a residential house for the acting...

Location Class: •School

City: •Harjo

Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda

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Feb 1, 2011

Each year since 1993, Preservation Oklahoma, Inc. has published a list of Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Historic Places. Abandoned Oklahoma and Preservation OK are partnering up this year to document these locations to help raise awareness. Lists over the past 16 years have shown incredible diversity in the types of sites and preservation challenges they...

Location Class: •Commercial •School •Government

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Dec 31, 2010

Rosenwald Hall, a rectangular red-brick building with white clapboard sections, served the community of Lima, Oklahoma, from 1921 to 1966. Duringperiod it was Lima’s only elementary school. Lima, one of twenty-nine all-Black towns founded in Oklahoma before statehood (twenty-five in the Indian Territory and four in the Oklahoma Territory), is one of only...

Location Class: •School

City: •Lima

Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda

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Oct 20, 2010

In the post-war era, Oklahoma had a significant number of children diagnosed with mental disabilities requiring institutionalization, but the two schools operated by state mental health officials at Enid and Pauls Valley had become antiquated and overcrowded and dated back almost to statehood. Providing modern care for these children became a priority for...

Location Class: •School •Hospital

City: •Sand Springs

Photographer: •Billy! •Fiend •Psychosaw13 •BOOGYMAN

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Oct 13, 2010

Fort Sill Indian School has witnessed many changes during its more than 100 years in Lawton, Oklahoma. When established in 1871 it served Indian children as a reservation elementary school. It gradually became a boarding high school with an enrollment drawn from all over the nation. On July 1, 1869, Lawrie Tatum, a Quaker, was placed in charge of the Agency of...

Location Class: •School

City: •Lawton

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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Oct 1, 2010

October is “Haunted Heartland” month at Abandoned Oklahoma. With Halloween approaching fast, we figured why not do something special. So, during the month of October, we will be featuring the scariest places in Oklahoma. We are not ghost hunters, and don’t have any special equipment, but some of the places we have been do come off as pretty...

Location Class: •School •Church •Ghost Town •Hospital

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Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Sep 30, 2010

Lovell began as a Post office on May 22, 1889 while unassigned lands were opened for settlement. It’s original name Perth, was changed in 1906 to honor that man who settled and developed the town site, James W. Lovell. Perth, soon to be Lovell, became an agricultural trade center upon completion of  a railroad route connecting Guthrie to Enid in 1902,...

Location Class: •School

City: •Lovell

Photographer: •Billy!

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Mar 17, 2010

A resident in town says that this school was known as SpringHill High School. I have yet to find any record of it on the internet. The school closed sometime in the late 60′s. Inside the electrical panel there was some writing in pencil which had the electricians name, union, and the date of 1927. It also said he was called out to run the electric from...

Location Class: •School

City: •Pharoah

Photographer: •SaraNearGuthrie

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Mar 11, 2010

Location Class: •School

City: •Pawhuska

Photographer: •Fiend •Psychosaw13

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Nov 27, 2009

Chilocco Zone 1 AOK 75 Photos Chilocco Zone 2 AOK 52 Photos Chilocco Zone 3 AOK 65 Photos Chilocco Zone 4 AOK 10...

Location Class: •School •Ghost Town

City: •Chilocco•Newkirk

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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