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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

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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

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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

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Oct 16, 2010

History: Maud, OK is best known as the birthplace of Wanda Jackson, the queen of rockabilly. The town is located at the intersection of State Highways 59 and 9A, with its western half of the town located in Pottawatomie County and its eastern half in Seminole County. The town was established along the dividing line between Oklahoma and Indian territories and in...

Location Class: •Ghost Town

City: •Maud

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Sep 11, 2010

Sunset Estates was opened as a long term nursing facility in 1977 for medicaid and medicare patients only. There were 62 beds. They provided many services to residents such as clinical laboratory services, dental services, dietary services, mental and social services and speech and language pathology. In 1997 a Pottawatomie county judge found Sunset Estates...

Location Class: •Hospital

City: •Maud

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