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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 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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Dec 19, 2011

Many people in Yukon, Oklahoma pass around several rumors as to the actual identity of the place.  Some say it’s an insane asylum; some say it was a haunted church.  Many kids today claim to know exactly what it is, but then again, they only go at night and assume the worst.  In reality, after digging through old files and asking the next door neighbor,...

Location Class: •Residential •Hospital

City: •Yukon

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 17, 2011

The Walcourt building was built in 1927 by architect Joe Davis and builder Charles G. Beveridge and opened as an apartment building by its original owner, H.E. Musson. The 9,378-square-foot, two-story red brick building was designed in a Jacobethan Revival style of architecture. In 1982, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic places. At the...

Location Class: •Residential

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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Nov 16, 2011

Not much can be said about this location other than it’s a nursing home that came under fire from the health board for possible abuse and various code violations. There are several articles on NewsOK.com that give a bit more overview. Whispering Pines Nursing Center’s closing leaves many in shock Residents of Whispering Pines Nursing Center and their...

Location Class: •Residential •Hospital

City: •Norman

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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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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Jan 1, 2011

This eleven-story building was designed by Bruce Goff. It was built through the joint effort of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa Club.  The club, which was founded in 1925, was the place to be for businessmen to make deals at lunchtime and show off their wealth at evening dinners. The building has 11 floors, which were dedicated to giant dining...

Location Class: •Commercial

City: •Tulsa

Photographer: •Fiend

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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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Dec 1, 2010

Opening Thoughts with Psychosaw13: It is with great pleasure that I present to all of you Dogpatch U.S.A.  I first discovered Dogpatch by a suggestion from Chardonnay Mullin (a friend on Facebook) about a UE website that was Ozark area based. I had no clue what Urban Exploration was at the time. After going through most of the posts & forums on that...

Location Class: •Amusement Park

City: •Marble Falls, AR

Photographer: •Psychosaw13

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Oct 27, 2010

SPECIAL THANKS First we want to give a huge thanks to Kevin Weaver over at GirlScoutMurders.com for giving us a personal tour and his help researching. Head over to his site to read EVERYTHING about the Camp Scott story. BACKGROUND The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is still to this day an unsolved crime in rural Mayes County, Oklahoma. On a rainy, late-spring...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Locust Grove

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! •Fiend •Psychosaw13

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Oct 26, 2010

Granite is hardly a Ghost Town with a population of nearly 2,000, but we figured we would still make a post with some of the cool things we found. History: Located in Greer County (formerly Old Greer County), Granite is situated six miles north and seven miles east of Mangum at the junction of Oklahoma State Highways 6 and 9. Lying at the southern base of...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Granite

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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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 17, 2010

Reed is a small unincorporated community located along State Highway 9 in Greer County. The post office opened September 16, 1892. The town was said to have been named for the first postmaster, John Reed Graham.

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Reed

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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