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Aug 31, 2009

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City: •Earlsboro

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 31, 2009

St. George church was started by a group of Greek Orthodox brothers shortly after statehood. By 1921 they had raised enough funds to build a church at the corner of NW 8th and western. During this period there was great growth among the congregation. They had their traditional greek festivals which were open to the public during and lent and led many community...

Location Class: •Church

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy!

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Aug 21, 2009

Sunset elementary school was built in early 1960 and opened to enrollment in the summer of 1960. It was constructed to serve the overcrowded Ridgeview elementary in the east side of the Village. It is 19,000 square feet and has about 9 acres surrounding it. The OKCPS declared it surpuls in 1984 because of low enrollment. The City of the Village was given the...

Aug 21, 2009

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...

Location Class: •School

City: •Spencer

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 17, 2009

Jefforson Davis School was opened for enrollment in August of 1931. It had a long and succesful run serving the south part of the city immediately south of Capitol Hill. Notably it had several oil wells on the property and one that hit a gusher causing it to splatter the school with oklahoma gold. It closed in the early 1980′s, because of lack of...

Location Class: •School

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 16, 2009

Nu-way Cleaners was constructed around 1928 and stayed at it’s location during the entire life of the business. Extensive renovations were completed during it’s life, mostly during the 1930′s, as noted by the Art Deco architecture and details present still to this day. Nu-way closed in the early 1990′s due to lack of business in the ever...

Location Class: •Commercial

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 15, 2009

Thomas A Edison school was built in the early 1950′s. There isn’t much notable to mention about this place. It is a standard Oklahoma City public school design of this time period. Large classrooms with sloping ceilings that open to shared courtyards. Very narrow hallways connect the classroms to central areas that inculde the restrooms, offices and...

Location Class: •School

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 12, 2009

Location Class: •Commercial

City: •Bridgeport•Geary•Hydro

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 6, 2009

Some Personal accounts of people living in Earlsboro taken from Ghosts Of America. I live in Earlsboro and YES it is very creepy. The house i live in sits on a burned down hotel and i often find marbles and other burned toys of kids that died in the hotel. It is very eerie and there is a field outside my house and its scary as well. – A fellow resident Of...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Earlsboro

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Aug 1, 2009

The Bryant Center opened in the northeast side of Oklahoma City in September of 1960. It featured a bowling alley, dance center, a restaurant and a private supper club. Bryant Center was the epicenter of life for the long suppressed “negro” section of town and as quoted by the Oklahoman, featured “activites for both whites and negros”....

Location Class: •Commercial

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 29, 2009

Located in Oklahoma City’s “church row” The center for Design Arts began it’s life as the First Church of Christ Scientists. It was constructed in phases between 1914 and 1918.It has been abandoned for close to two decades. The building itself is constructed in a Classical Revival design featuring four greek columns facing Robinson, with...

Location Class: •Commercial •Church

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 24, 2009

Meridian received its name from the Indian Meridian on which it is located. This line is used as the main street and also separates the town into two townships. The west half being in Bear Creek Township, and the east half in South Cimmarron Township. In 1902 the townsite was laid out by the Meridian Right-of-Way and Townsite company, and very soon many homes...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Meridian

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 16, 2009

About 13 miles northwest of Depew, Oklahoma sits the almost abandoned town of Shamrock. Once a booming oil town with as many as 10,000 people, the town now sits fading with only about 100 residents, crumbling foundations and long closed businesses. The town began as a small farming hamlet with it first post office established on July 9, 1910. Shamrock was named...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Shamrock

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 5, 2009

The abandoned Truman elementary school caught fire today. Closed for nearly 20 years its fate is definitely sealed. Go see it before it is torn down. NE 13th and Kelham. “There was somebody with fireworks and then I saw the smoke coming out of the top of the building, and then I called the fire department,” said the resident, who asked not to be...

Location Class: •School

City: •Oklahoma City

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 4, 2009

Bridgeport had possibilities of becoming an important and progressive town, but two factors (1) physical‚-the Canadian River‚-and (2) human‚- a town feud‚- caused its downfall. Located on the south bank of the Canadian River in an area of rich farming land, and served by crossing rail lines, the town appeared destined to be the chief shipping point for a...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Bridgeport

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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Jul 2, 2009

Fallis was an unusual little town. Located in a wooded area and “on a long red hill,” it became an agricultural center, a railroad town, and an oil community. More importantly, however, it was the home of five nationally recognized authors plus two well-known state poets. The original natural setting was beautiful, and, as one author noted, it was a...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Fallis

Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team

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