More than 50% of the lead used by the US in WWI was mined in the now abandoned town of Picher OK
One more summer town for you - Summerfield in LeFlore County. (my family's hometown)
Cedar Creek
Cedar Creek
For you history buffs, the 1933 kidnapping that made Machine Gun Kelly famous took place at 327 NW 18th in downtown OKC.
For the aviation buffs, Wiley Post hangared at Curtiss-Wright field in the same hangar Paul Braniff started Braniff World Airways in on N. May at Britton in OKC.
For the aviation buffs, Wiley Post hangared at Curtiss-Wright field in the same hangar Paul Braniff started Braniff World Airways in on N. May at Britton in OKC.
How many of y'll know how to say "Honobia"?
Bigfoot sightings?
Turn signals for vehicles were invented and patented by Hans Gruner in Ponca City.
He then went on to be the conductor of the Victoria Symphony in Canada, became a huge villain and died in a fall from a building.
There was actually a gold rush in the Quartz Mountains in the early 30's, and it was mined by Spanish earler than that.
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