Oklahoma Miscellaneous
Data
Historic Places For Washita
County
- Ben Kiehn Memorial
Erected by the Oklahoma state bankers
association as an expression of their regard for their fellow member as a man
of honor and integrity. On Jan 24, 1928 he gave his life to the cause of law
and order, in defending that which was intrusted to his care against armed
bandits.
- Black Post
Black Post Early Day Landmark.
- Cloud Chief Courthouse
Site of first Washita County court house
Cloud Chief, originally Tacola, served as the first county seat. Area settled
by land run April 19, 1892. August 7, 1900, citizens voted to move county seat
to Cordell. U.S. Supreme Court voided the election since U.S. Congress had
designated Cloud Chief the county seat. In 1906, Congress officially named
Cordell the co. seat.
- Cloud Creek
Washita County Home of American's First Upstream Flood Control
Dam Cloud Creek #1 Washita River Basin Dedicated July 8, 1948 Rededicated July
3, 1990 Cloud Creek Dam NO. 1 Located 11 miles southeast of Cordell was the
first of 1140 dams in the Washita River Basin and the first of over 10,000
nationwide. It was built in partnership with the local community, The Washita
County Conseration District and USDA Soil Conseervation Service. These Dams
provide flood control, water suppy, recreation, wildlife Havitat and
...
- Colony
Colony One of the oldest towns in Western Oklahoma founded in
1886 by John Seger and the Cheyenne-Arapaho on the banks of Cobb Creek. Seger
Indian Industrial School operated here from 1892 until 1932. Local tradition
holds this was a starting point for the Land run of 1892. Dutch Reformed
Misson opened here in 1895. Post Office established Jan. 8, 1896. Buildings in
this block built in 1920"s by Fred Kauger and restored by Oklahoma Supreme
Court Justice Yvonne Kauger. Long before the 20th Century, Native Americans
occupied ...
- Cordell Academy
Site three blocks east. Opened in 1906, under auspices of the
Dutch Reformed Churche, this pioneer school taught the youth here in Christain
living. Its motto was "Labor omnia vicit." Presidents to its close in 1911
were: Myron B. Keator, Dr. Jacobe Poppen, Rev. C. H. Spaan. Teachers included
Harold C. Amos, Laura B. Hilger and Valonia
Corley.
- Korn to Corn
Corn has it roots in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Land Run of 1892.
Native Americans had earlier been able to choose their sites. Soon after a
Mennonite Missionary at Shelly Took note of unclaimed land and invited
German-Russian Mennonites of South Central Kansas to homestead in this area.
Thirteen arrived and selected land along. Coffee Creek, Two miles west of
present Corn. By fall of 1893, forty families had settled. More families came
in 1894-1895. They brought the Turkey Red Wheat which would bring Oklahoma
into the Wheat Belt of America. ...
- New Cordell Courthouse Square Historical
District
Cordell Historical
District The structures, built of brick with a typical clipped front of a
corner building of the period, was one of the first brick buildings built in
Cordell.
- Port School
Port School 1915 - 1922 By the fall term of 1892-93, 31 school
districts had been organize in "H," now Washita Co. Wood district 3,
containing 10.25 sq. mi., which was the beginning of the largest consolidated
school in Okla. and possibly the nation (over 88 sq. mi.). School was held in
a dugout. Albert Peachy and Nick Bowie teachers. Enrollment was 25. In 1902, a
three room frame structure was built east of Port cemetery and the name was
change to Port. Enrollment was 75 that year. In 1913, orange and black where
selected as ...
- Red Bluff Community Church and
School
Red Bluff Church and
School first opened in 1900. The church was the first missionary Baptists in
Washita County; functioning until 1946. The Red Bluff School also served the
community until that time; acting as a social center. The church building was
erected in 1917 on the farm of the W. B. Druce family.
- Retrop
Dedicated to the pioneers who settled this community whose
perseverance and courage enabled them to survive the hard times of drought and
dust bowl days give us a heritage in which we take great pride. History states
that most of the land around Retrop was settled in 1896-97. A man named Porter
from Iowa, made application for a post office to be named Porter, but because
there was an office in Indian territory by that name. The post office
department spelled the name backward and "Retrop" was the new post office.
Retrop ...
- Rocky School Memorial
Rocky School Memorial. Includes information
on the History of Rocky, Orange Blossom, Rocky Public School, Rocky
Cooperative, and The State Bank of Rocky.
- Seger Colony
4 mi. N. Begun by Cheyenne and Arapho in 1886. under U.S.
supervisor. John H. Seger. the Indiands friend and Oklahoma pioneer. Seger
Indian Industrial School opened there, 1893. Mission founded by Rev. Frank H
Write. 1895 under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church. Rec. and Mrs. Walter
C Roc were first in charge of mission
- Sharon Missionary Baptist Church
Sharon Missionary Baptist Church Land Donated
By Prairie Pioneers B.E. and Virginia Grant Bryant January 7, 1910 Original
Church 1909-1950 Present ChurchBuilt 1951 Great Seal of The State of Oklahoma
1907
- Tacola / Cloud Chief School
Tacola / Cloud Chief School Created in 1892,
Tacola school met in a dugout until 1894 when a 30' x 50' bldg. was built 1/2
mi. SW of this marker. In 1918, the school was moved to a new bldg. north of
this marker. During the 1921 consolidation of school districts, the name
changed to Cloud Chief. The high school moved to Cordell in 1958 and the
school closed in 1960
- Washita County Courthouse
Washita County Courthouse
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