PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net I have been noticing the farm ponds around our area south of Lone Grove continuing to turn in to mud holes for the lack of rain water. One large pond just a few hundred yards southeast of our place his turned into a dry hole, as best…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net I mentioned a couple weeks ago about the upcoming 100th anniversary of the infamous Ada hanging.  April 19, 1909 was a day that hit all the newspapers in the country about the hanging of four men in Ada, Oklahoma early that morning.  Jill and I are planning…

I learned this week about a falls located in far northern Carter county, south of Hennipen.  As best he remembers it was called 12 Mile Springs or something like that.  He saw it many years ago while tromping around that area exploring caves, and said it was the most beautiful falls.  Maybe some of you…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Baseball in the Cross Timbers The Sooner State League operated for eleven seasons between 1947 and 1957.  More than 3,000 players mounted the bottom rung of the baseball’s ladder leading to the dream-come-true of playing in “the Show.”  More than just a sports book, in fourteen chapters…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net From The Wilson Post, September 27, 1962 Wilson, Oklahoma by Robert S. Davie Indian Trails, Wagon Roads No More.  There were a few thorns among the roses in the old days, perhaps the stickiest were the roads.  Some roads had more than one set of ruts and…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net I took Jill to her first Pow Wow last Saturday night at Ardmore’s Hardy Murphy Coliseum.  She loved it. The Ardmore Dream Catcher’s Pow Wow was sponsored by the Ardmore High School Native American Club.  If you’ve never attended a Pow Wow, I encourage you to find…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net ‘Was Justice Denied In Ada’ by Chuck Parsons “This will probably be the final word on the 4 men who were murdered in Ada, Oklahoma on April 19, 1909 by a mob of Masons who lynched 4 innocent men accused of the murder of rancher A.A. Bobbitt.  No one…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Most of you who do not live here in Carter county know by now, thanks to all the news coverage by the national news networks, a F4 tornado came through Lone Grove last Tuesday evening destroying many homes and taking the lives of 8 people at last…

The past few weeks there has been much interest in the caves around Turner Falls.  Herman Kirkwood wrote in last week to asked if anyone knew where the cave is that Bully July threw two bodies after he killed them.  Herman hopes someone had more info on this cave along with its location. I did…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net The past few weeks there has been so much interest in the caves around Turner Falls.  Herman Kirkwood wrote in to asked if anyone knew where the cave is that Bully July threw two bodies, after he killed them.  Herman hoped someone had more info on this…