Lost Ark
Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 2, 2021
Crossing at Doan's
If you counted yourself among the fashionable pioneer set, a MUST-DO was to cross into Indian Territory by way of the Doan's Store....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Criminal architecture
Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Denison DAM!
When Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House from Bonham (Fannin County, Texas), proposed the flood control project for the Red River at...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Old Arkansas Home
In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story home without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas. This...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport
In January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Muriel and Boggy
In 1927, Muriel H. Wright, a teacher and one of Oklahoma's most detailed historians, mapped Boggy Depot (Atoka County, Oklahoma) from...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Lone Grave
Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 1, 2020
Jail bait
Inside the jail cells in a field in rural Denton County. I love estate sales, where I look for old correspondence and photographs. I’m...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 9, 2020
Rural education
Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas. (Baylor University) In 1906, a group of civic leaders put their...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 17, 2020
A visit to Brushy Mound
A feature map of Cooke County, Texas, reveals the Brushy Mound community, also known as Brushy Mountain (Texas General Land Office). The...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 16, 2019
Roosevelt schoolin’
The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 20, 2018
An Embarrassment of Architectural Treasures in De Soto Parish
According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 12, 2018
Fort Towson remains
Grant Foreman, one of Oklahoma’s first historians, appears in this photograph overlooking the ruins of Fort Towson in 1900. Although Fort...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 19, 2018
Cactus Jack’s home town
Lovely former gas station in Detroit, Red River County, Texas. DEE-troyt was the home town of “Cactus Jack” John Nance Garner, a Speaker...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 15, 2018
Beautiful Buffalo Springs
I visited Buffalo Springs in Clay County (TX), a little ghost town named after a nearby buffalo watering site. Founded around 1864,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 28, 2018
Cobble Cobble
The cobble stones, also called “cannonballs,” used in the structures (pictured below) constitute good examples of Indigenous architecture...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 9, 2018
A trip to historic Shreveport
In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 1, 2018
Muriel Wright, Oklahoma Historian
Boggy Depot Plan numbers Depot Muriel Wright 1927 1. Gov. Allen Wright’s residence. 2. John. Kingsbury residence. 3. House built by Mr....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 25, 2016
A complaint about access
Indulge me for a moment while I vent a consistent frustration of mine… and probably one experienced by historians (professional and lay...
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