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One major theme at the Henryetta Historical Society is "Behind every picture, there is a story."
In keeping with that belief, here is a photo from the past of a 1949-1950 class at Washington Grade School.
This class had six sets of twins and they were taught by Mrs. Smith.
From top to bottom are Troy and Roy Dodson, Joe and Glenda Marshall, Ronnie and Donna Wright, Donnie and Davey Smith, Carlos and Carl Brown, and Lloyd and Boyd Hall.
Anyone who has a similar photo of historic significance, please provide it and the history behind it so it can be preserved it for history. |
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Hugh Henry rifle coming home |
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A part of Henryetta history could be coming back after nearly a century.
Henryetta Historical Society president Mike Doak said the 1873 Winchester rifle once carried by town founder Hugh Henry has been located.
He said he was contacted Friday by Charles Henry who said he is a descendant of the rancher that settled here in 1875.
"He said the rifle had been passed down through the family with an uncle giving it to his father," Doak said. |
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"He was doing some research on Hugh Henry and got on the Territorial Museum website where he started reading about his ancestor. That's when he decided the rifle needed to be in the museum collection.
Henry lives near Orlando, Fla., and is going to be making arrangements to ship the rifle to Henryetta. No date has been given when it could arrive. |
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Welcome to the Territorial Museum |
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 For over 100 years, Henryetta has been home to thousands of people. Each of these have left their mark on the community, each has contributed to the town we have today.
Celebrate that heritage, be it miner, businessman, politician, cowboy or laborer, when you visit the Territorial Museum.
The Territorial Museum is housed in Henryetta’s original one-room school, constructed by W.B. Hudson in 1905 on the northwest corner of 5th & Trudgeon with lumber hauled from Indiana.·The building was moved across the street by a team of horses in 1926, but was left as it was hauled·with the back facing the street.
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Henryetta -Founding and Naming |
Hugh Henry. a Creek citizen, had worked on cattle ranches in Texas before settling in the Creek Nation in the late 1800s.
By about 1875 Henry had claimed land in the valley of Coal Creek.
Surveyors seeking a route for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad subsequently sought to acquire Henry's land for use as a townsite.
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Behind Every Picture There’s A Story |
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From the “Spirit of St. Louis” to coal miners 350 feet underground, the digitally preserved and magnificently displayed works of Joseph W. Hardin are among the greatest photographs ever taken.
Hardin‘s ten-foot panoramic film negatives, unique in photography and created using cameras of his own invention, recorded Oklahoma‘s oilfields and boom towns in their glory days. His glass negatives captured the weathered faces of Dust Bowl farmers and their families on drought-stricken homesteads.
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January 2012 Newsletter
