Santa Fe Depot Ponca City
Santa Fe Depot Ponca City Abandoned Oklahoma
Stan Pace at Santa Fe Depot Carving Sculpture 2016
Stan Pace carving a tree at the Santa Fe Depot in Shawnee Oklahoma
Baptist Bear Move
Baptist Sporting Goods in Shawnee, Okla. recently
closed its doors and donated a staple of its store, a large
stuffed brown bear, to the local historical society. Staff
from CPN's Housekeeping volunteered their time and
effort to make sure the mammoth object was safely
moved to the Santa Fe Depot Museum.
afternoon in Guthrie
not only was Guthrie the first state capitol of Oklahoma, but its also kinda depressing... no matter, Anner and I had a good time trying to find out who was driving all the cars we saw parked downtown. I'm mean seriously, I know the old train station is supposed to be haunted, but Sundays turn this place into a ghost town.
Shamrock, Oklahoma, oil boom ghost town
The incorporated town of Shamrock is situated in west-central Creek County at the junction of State Highways 16 and 99. Located approximately thirty-two miles from the county seat of Sapulpa, Shamrock received a postal designation on July 9, 1910, and was named by James M. Thomas for his hometown in Illinois. In 1908 Thomas had come to the Shamrock area from Parkland, Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory (O.T.) and had established a store at the crossroads of an old cattle trail (possibly the West Shawnee Trail) and roads that diverged into O.T. At that time workers building an Oklahoma Natural Gas pipeline through the area brought the first prosperity to Shamrock. Other businesses soon opened. However, Shamrock received its greatest economic boost during the oil-boom years of the Drumright-Cushing Field.
Between 1915 and 1916 the Sapulpa and Oil Fields Railroad (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) built a line northward from Depew to Shamrock. In 1916 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway constructed a line that connected Shamrock and Drumright. The railroad depot building was painted green with white trim and had a shamrock (three-leaf clover) painted over the town's name. Because the railroad bypassed the town by three-quarters of a mile, citizens moved their establishments to the southeast, closer to the tracks. Most buildings were situated on the main street, Tipperary Road. Other streets had Irish names such as Dublin, Killarney, Blarney, and Cork. With the arrival of the railroads Shamrock developed as a shipping point for oil-field equipment and crude oil.
The Shamrock Townsite Company sold the first town lot in November 1915. The Shamrock Brogue newspaper was first published on January 1, 1916, and the Shamrock Blarney was first printed on March 9, 1916. Both were succeeded by the Creek County Democrat. By January 1, 1916, the town had approximately thirty buildings and amenities including gas, water, and telephones. The Citizens State Bank and the First State Bank had opened, and citizens passed a fifteen-thousand-dollar bond to construct a brick school building. On March 17, 1916, approximately five thousand participants observed the first St. Patrick's Day celebration. In honor of the event a 11,500-pound sandstone, quarried from a bluff at Spring Creek approximately five miles south of town, became a blarney stone. In addition to the oil and gas industry, the economy was supplemented by agriculture. In September 1916 the cotton gin processed approximately twenty-six wagonloads of cotton a day. A gin continued in operation into the mid-1950s.
During the oil boom the population fluctuated between ten and fifteen thousand. However, as the boom gradually subsided the population declined, as indicated by a recorded 1,409 in 1920 and 777 in 1930. The numbers dropped from 461 in 1940 to 204 in 1970. Due to waning economy and population, the railroad abandoned its line in October 1957, and the school closed in 1961. The 1980 and 1990 federal censuses reported 218 and 95, respectively. At the turn of the twenty-first century Shamrock had a population of 125. Its citizens continued to support an annual St. Patrick's Day parade.
Bricktown Oklahoma city The Allyway The Canal
Dollar Tree closing hundreds more Family Dollar stores
The discount retailer will shutter or rebrand almost 600 locations and is even looking into pricing some items above a buck.
Haunted Karla's Bridge Catoosa, Oklahoma
I apologize ahead of time for the jumpy audio I posted this same video with less editing and less cursing on my other channel Stolen Television Entertainment. This is more detailed and has a better explanation of the kind of night we had. Catoosa, Oklahoma/ Redbud Valley. Links below to the articles of Karla's Brudge and as well as the CLEAN version to this video.
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Oklahoma City | Wikipedia audio article
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Oklahoma City
00:03:00 1 History
00:08:02 2 Geography
00:10:30 2.1 Tallest buildings
00:10:39 2.2 Neighborhoods
00:12:17 2.3 Climate
00:14:34 2.3.1 Extreme weather
00:17:08 3 Demographics
00:21:28 3.1 Metropolitan statistical area
00:21:56 3.2 Crime
00:24:09 4 Economy
00:26:36 4.1 Business districts
00:27:17 5 Culture
00:27:25 5.1 Museums and theaters
00:31:17 6 Sports
00:33:41 6.1 High school football
00:34:35 6.2 Oklahoma City Thunder
00:36:28 6.3 Hornets
00:37:17 6.4 Current metro area pro-teams
00:37:27 7 Parks and recreation
00:40:26 8 Government
00:41:06 8.1 Politics
00:42:01 9 International relations
00:42:11 9.1 Consulates
00:42:19 9.2 Twin towns – Sister cities
00:42:57 10 Education
00:43:06 10.1 Higher education
00:45:48 10.2 Primary and secondary
00:47:37 10.3 CareerTech
00:48:19 11 Media
00:48:27 11.1 Print
00:49:49 11.2 Broadcast
00:53:07 12 Infrastructure
00:53:16 12.1 Fire department
00:54:33 12.2 Transportation
00:54:42 12.2.1 Highway
00:56:52 12.2.2 Air
00:57:34 12.2.3 Rail and bus
00:58:10 12.2.4 Public transit
01:01:45 12.2.5 Walkability
01:02:22 12.3 Health
01:05:03 13 Notable people
01:05:12 14 See also
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Oklahoma City (), often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 643,648 as of July 2017. As of 2015, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,358,452, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area.
Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural (watershed). The city ranks as the ninth-largest city in the United States by total area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the second largest city in the United States by total area, after Houston, whose government is similarly not consolidated with that of a county or borough).
Lying in the Great Plains region, Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy. The city is in the middle of an active oil field and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs large numbers of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (these two sites house several offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).
Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor, which is one of the primary travel corridors south into neighboring Texas and Mexico and north towards Wichita and Kansas City. Located in the state's Frontier Country region, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. The city was the scene of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died. It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Since the time weather records have been kept, Oklahoma City has been struck by thirteen strong tornadoes; eleven of these tornadoes were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two were rated F5 or EF5.Since 2008, Oklahoma City has been home to the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Oklahoma City Thunder, who play their home basketball games at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.
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00:01:56 1 Etymology
00:02:49 2 Geography
00:04:58 2.1 Topography
00:07:29 2.2 Flora and fauna
00:09:29 2.3 Protected lands
00:11:09 2.4 Climate
00:15:43 3 History
00:19:34 3.1 20th and 21st centuries
00:23:42 4 Demographics
00:26:43 4.1 Cities and towns
00:27:47 4.2 Language
00:30:20 4.3 Religion
00:32:13 4.4 Incarceration rate
00:32:39 5 Economy
00:34:26 5.1 Industry
00:36:10 5.2 Energy
00:39:00 5.2.1 Wind generation
00:39:09 5.3 Agriculture
00:39:59 6 Education
00:44:30 6.1 Non-English education
00:45:33 7 Culture
00:47:22 7.1 Arts
00:51:09 7.2 Festivals and events
00:53:14 7.3 Sports
00:57:14 7.3.1 Current teams
00:57:22 8 Health
00:59:43 9 Media
01:02:03 10 Transportation
01:04:45 11 Law and government
01:05:33 11.1 State government
01:07:22 11.2 Local government
01:09:23 11.3 National politics
01:11:47 11.4 Military
01:11:56 12 Cities and towns
01:12:05 12.1 Major cities
01:14:56 13 State symbols
01:15:43 14 See also
01:16:00 15 Notes
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Oklahoma ( (listen)) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, Texas on the south, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. It is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the fifty United States. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning red people. It is also known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State, in reference to the non-Native settlers who staked their claims on land before the official opening date of lands in the western Oklahoma Territory or before the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which dramatically increased European-American settlement in the eastern Indian Territory. Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged into the State of Oklahoma when it became the 46th state to enter the union on November 16, 1907. Its residents are known as Oklahomans (or colloquially, Okies), and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
A major producer of natural gas, oil, and agricultural products, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Both Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly two thirds of Oklahomans living within their metropolitan statistical areas.With ancient mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains, Cross Timbers, and the U.S. Interior Highlands, a region prone mainly to severe weather. More than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, ranking third behind Alaska and California.
Oklahoma is on a confluence of three major American cultural regions and historically served as a route for cattle drives, a destination for Southern settlers, and a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka is the capital city of the State of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 127,473. The Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census.
The name Topeka is a Kansa-Osage sentence that means Place where we dug potatoes or a good place to dig potatoes. As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it was novel, of Indian origin and euphonious of sound. The mixed-blood Kansa Native American, Joseph James, called Jojim, is credited with suggesting the name of Topeka. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city.
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Kansas
Kansas /ˈkænzəs/ KAN-zəs is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the wind or people of the south wind, although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum, and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
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JStone TV Episode 3 - Ghosts in Oklahoma
Episode 3 of JStone TV is a tidbit from back in June when Seth and I went to Oklahoma to ghost hunt with a couple lady friends. P.S. one of them is a huge chicken lol
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Wewoka Switch Plaza part 1
Infrastructure problems in Wewoka
Kansas
Kansas i/ˈkænzəs/ KAN-zəs is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean people of the wind or people of the south wind, although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
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Oklahoma Horizon TV Show 1619
This week on “Oklahoma Horizon,” we head to a small town with charm and big city amenities: Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Walmart shoplifting vigilante goes viral
Caught on cell cam: He just stole this stuff. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a confrontation over a loaded cart.
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).