PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST From The Daily ArdmoreiteArdmore, OklahomaThursday, December 26, 1935 FLAMES SWEEP LONE GROVE BUSINESS AREA FIRE WIPES OUT THREE BUILDINGS General Store, Drugstore, Filling Stations and Physician’s Office Destroyed ARDMORE FIRE FIGHTERS AID County Commissioner Says Ardmore Firemen Saved Buildings Fire,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST On September 13, 1933 at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma police were investigating the poison death of that city’s resident, Jim Taylor, age 55. The investigation would reveal a sickening set of events that led up to the death of Taylor. Taylor…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Back around 1960 I barely remember an old 2-story white wood frame building just east of 3rd NE and P Street. It was located at 1630 3rd NE and back then it was known as D&H Nursing Home. I remember seeing those large emergency escape…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Herman Kirkwood lives in Oklahoma City and is president of the Oklahoma Outlaw and Lawmen Association.  Herman called the other day to tell about a front page write-up in The Ada News along with photos on the 1909 hanging of four men in that city. The…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Back decades ago there was a log cabin about halfway between Ardmore and Dickson that I had mentioned in a 2005 newsletter. Ardmoreite Joe Baker brought by a photo of the log cabin last week to share with everyone after he had remembered me mentioning…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Fred Hamner at one time was a sheriff in Seminole, Oklahoma and later a jailer in Wewoka, but went to the other side in 1932.  He and others robbed a bank just over in the next county, Johnston County, at Millcreek, Oklahoma. Hamner would lose…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST Monday, September 4, 1933 in Ardmore, Oklahoma, a car chase took place that would make headlines across the country. Harvey Bailey, outlaw, was being held in jail at Dallas for kidnapping Oklahoma City oil man and millionaire, Charles F. Urschel.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I received an email this week about a really old piece of Carter County history that I had almost forgot about. I learned about this piece of history from Woodford resident Jim Hill back in 2005 when he and I went to see it on…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I’ve mentioned several times in back issues of this newsletter how I’ve noticed in old photographs taken in Oklahoma has one stark feature–no trees, or hardly any trees in many areas. 100 years ago this area was mostly prairie. I have dozens of photographs taken…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 The Henry Baum Sr. family were among the first settlers to Ardmore in the 1890s. Henry was offered a position with the “Iron Store”, one of the earliest businesses in Ardmore. Henry was living in Gainesville, Texas and accept the offer. Henry eventually became the…