The Ardmore Depot opened to rail passengers in August 1917 as a joint effort between the Santa Fe Railway and a now-extinct branch of the Rock Island Railroad. In 1998 BNSF, the successor to the Santa Fe, sold the depot to the Ardmore Main Street Authority for $1 and sold the land for $20,000. In…

Betty Stone was the Ardmore cemetery recorder years ago. I could not find her on Find-a-Grave. But I would like to know more about this lady. Maybe someone reading this will remember Betty and tell us more John B. Smith and his wife. Mrs. Smith became known as Aunt Sallie Smith. The couple lived in…

I found a website where the 1957 book History of Carter County can be viewed online or downloaded. It’s 236 pages in PDF format so be patient, its a large file. I see the book, if you can find one, sells for about $200. Two Lone Grove boys searching for buried treasure literally struck gold…

The 1910 Carter County Courthouse is getting a major overhaul of it’s copper dome. It was really in bad shape with a number of leaks which caused rotting boards and framework under the copper, so it is badly needed. Scaffoldling has been installed and the work begins. Courthouse maintenance supervisor, Kalub Miller, was up at…

It’s 1pm and some serious storms are brewing in the Ardmore area. Hopefully the bad stuff will stay on the south side of the Red River. Washita Ferry near Gene Autry Below is the Reed Ferry Crossing in Love County. The Artesian fountain in Sulphur made it through the tornado last week. A couple of…

This morning around 3:00am 5/02/24 we had a torrential downpour bring us 2.5 inches of rain. South central Oklahoma is soaked. Need a break from all this but none predicted for the next 5 days. 🙁 The Newport Mesonet station is 9.7 miles north of my house at Newport, Oklahoma. https://www.mesonet.org/weather/local?stid=newp Below is a map…

I’ve made some great progress the past week connecting people who unbeknownst to them had unclaimed property/money at the State Treasurers Office. Four years ago when I started I tried to keep track of the total amount, but I finally gave up on that idea. But I estimate nearly $100,000 the past 7 or so…

As many of you know the past 4 years my hobby has been finding Oklahomans with unclaimed property at the Oklahoma State Treasurers office in OKC. There are nearly a million people on the website who do not know they have money to claim. To date I have connected over $2 Million Dollars with the…

Update: April 12, 2024This webpage created Jan 1, 2009 What others are saying…… 6/08/21 Bitter Enders Cave – I grew up camping at Turner Falls in the early 90s with my dad and ended up on many trips out there over the years with friends, family, and the Boy Scouts. I’d always known about several caves…

A Glimpse Into The Past Wirt – The Town That Was Always Burning The little combination justice of the peace-insurance agency office of Judge O. B. Orr in Wilson is a peaceful looking place. The judge himself has always been a peaceful man and the town of Wilson itself is peaceful. But the tenant of…