Helsel, Oklahoma

[meatGrinder]

I have spent a lot of free time studying state history and genealogy. I have researched for several years the old town of Helsel in Cleveland Co. I know the location of the school, the town, and several of the surrounding farms from 1900-1920. It was deserted and the land sold to the government when the Naval Gunnery School was built outside Lexington.

If anyone has any tidbits of history to share or old photographs to share, I would be ecstatic.

 

[Mr.Glock]

It is mind boggling to most the amount of towns in any state that went quiet and eroded out of most peoples minds.

 

[Mr.Glock]

Care to read up on some oddities in some of those small towns, I recommend this.

 

[Perplexed]

It is mind boggling to most the amount of towns in any state that went quiet and eroded out of most peoples minds.

Yep. I remember reading years ago about Urbana Avenue, that runs through an older subdivision between 51st and 61st in Tulsa, which was once the runway for Commercial Airport. When the city spread south and east in that direction, airport operations were moved to Riverside and the runway incorporated into the subdivision. If you look at a map, you’ll see that part of the street is pretty wide and runs perfectly straight, but is not quite aligned N-S.

 

[Bocephus123]

Brown Airport 51st Sheridan we were one of the first houses in the subdivision. dad was building villa fontana... our house backed to 51st used to get up on the wall and look at the airplanes.