Turn of the 20th Century Maps of OKC

[Prunepicker]

I just found this and can't stop looking.


Travel to The Heartland State: Oklahoma: Midtown Oklahoma City with the The Great Mirror

[Prunepicker]

Here are some other OKC, surrounding areas and some small towns from
OK. They're from the same site.

Travel to The Heartland State: Oklahoma with the The Great Mirror 2

[RadicalModerate]

That, Sir, is about as good as that sort of thing gets.
Thank You. (are you aware of Lileks.com and Shorpy?)
Don't matter. This is better. and local. =)

[Prunepicker]

That, Sir, is about as good as that sort of thing gets.
Thank You. (are you aware of Lileks.com and Shorpy?)
Don't matter. This is better. and local. =)

I dig maps. Did you notice the Sheppard homestead? Too cool. I'm
trying to find out how Mulligan Flats was named. It was near the
river. Another neighborhood was the "Sand" something. Was it Pit?

My brain hurts. It has to come out.

[RadicalModerate]

Dang. I just reviewed the lack of soil conservation and I'm not sure if I'm astounded, astonished, amazed or simply shatterpated. In any case, my brain hurts too. Geez . . . I guess the War in Syria and Global Warming will have to be put off or rescheduled . .. =)

[Tritone]

The "Sand" you refer to might be what we called Sandtown. It was/is east of May Avenue and between Reno and the North Canadian River.

Now, for the Pit. There was a location some called "Gumbo Pit" or "Gumbo Pits" on the Rock Isand (between Reno and NW 10th) near where the spur broke off and headed north. That spur is now gone, of course but it ran just east of Ann Arbor up to the east west line between NW 36th and NW 39th.

We local kids also knew of the "tar pit," also on the Rock Island about a half-mile west of Mac Arthur Blvd. Good times, long gone.

[RadicalModerate]

Just to show how much I like viewing the stuff on the other side of those links, I have to point out a couple of factual errors in the commentary that accompanies the photographs: Frank Phillips had nothing to do with the mansion in Tulsa (known, now, as The Philbrook Museum). It was his cousin, or whatever, Waite Phillips. The town of Guthrie is not "on a bluff overlooking the Cimarron River." It might overlook Cottonwood Creek but not the Cimarron River.

[Urbanized]

Waite Phillips was Frank Phillips' younger brother.

[RadicalModerate]

Waite Phillips was Frank Phillips' younger brother.

I think that would fall into the category of "whatever" . . . right? =)

[Urbanized]

Excellent point.

[OKCisOK4me]

I'm not for certain about the location of the streetcar barj, unless it was a separate facility from the shops cause they were located more north easterly as per Doug Loudenback's blog on OKC Streetcars & Trolleys.