PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 It always saddens me to lose a long time reader of my newsletters. I met Al Cullum 14 years ago when he signed up for my newsletter and every now and then he’d bring by issues of the Marietta Monitor for me to look at…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 It has been hotter than Hades here in south central Oklahoma this week. With all the rain the past few weeks the humidity has gone through the roof. I’ve been sandblasting quite a few pavers this week and in my shop building there is only…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 A found an article in the Daily Ardmoreite archives where my grandfather, Stanley Carmon, was the General Contractor for the new Church of Christ at 4th and A NW in Ardmore back in 1920. I assumed he was the one how laid the red bricks…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 In the past week or so the Ardmore area, like many other areas in the region, have received rain event after rain event. As I drive down county roads I see all the farm ponds full and almost overflowing. One of my neighbors to the…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 I guess all of us remember the fear of going to the dentist as a child.  I know my heart would start to beat fast when he fired up that buzzing drill and told me to open wide. I remember sitting in a dentist chair…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net , 580-490-6823 On the north side of the Carter County Courthouse is Hinkle Street. I guess in recent times the name Hinkle Street was made a household name because the Sheriffs Office was located at 106 Hinkle in the north end of the Annex Building. Sheriff offices…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email :  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net , 580-490-6823 In February 2009 I was at Mt Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma. In that cemetery is a section A few pavers I sandblasted the past few days. https://oklahomahistory.net/BSA/BSAGarrettWelchPaver.jpg https://oklahomahistory.net/BSA/BSAZackaryRawsonPaver.jpg https://oklahomahistory.net/BSA/BSAMarietta32Paver.jpg https://oklahomahistory.net/UMCpavers/UMCJessieBradenPaver.jpg You can find current gas prices for a particular Oklahoma town by entering the…

PO Box 2 Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 email address:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net With Mother’s day this coming Sunday, I thought I’d look up some history on the holiday PO Box 2 Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 email address:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net 580-490-6823 Mother’s Day in the United States is an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother’s Day recognizes mothers, motherhood, and maternal bonds in general, as…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net , 580-490-6823 Last Friday 125 people assembled at Ardmore’s Greater Southwest Historical Museum to remember the 83 souls who died April 22, 1966 near the Gene Autry airport in a plane crash. There were 15 survivors of that terrible crash back in 1966 and 5 of them were…

PO Box 2,Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email :  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, 580-490-6823 Tomorrow, Friday April 22nd at 2:00pm the Greater Southwest Historical Museum in Ardmore will be hosting 5 survivors of the 1966 plane crash NE of Ardmore, and around 40 family members of the those who died in the crash. Admiral Wesley Hull of the museum has a…