Robin Cole-JettMay 15Success by trialThe Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...
Robin Cole-JettJul 6, 2021George Conrad, Buffalo SoldierIn 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Humble historic homeSometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Training SchoolTwo miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...
Robin Cole-JettJun 30, 2021Tatums OilTatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...
Robin Cole-JettJun 28, 2021Great War SoldierTombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace history. And the history gathered from a tombstone needn't be from your...
Robin Cole-JettJun 28, 2021Dr. King's Visit to ShreveportIn January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...
Robin Cole-JettJun 9, 2020An academy for FreedmenOak Hill Industrial School in 1905 was established for freed people, formerly enslaved by the Choctaws, near today’s Valliant in Indian...
Robin Cole-JettMar 10, 2020Rural educationFarmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas. (Baylor University) In 1906, a group of civic leaders put their...
Robin Cole-JettOct 16, 2019Recipes and MemoriesLucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...
Robin Cole-JettJun 17, 2019Roosevelt schoolin’The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...
Robin Cole-JettMay 15, 2018Coal Country(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 14, 2018Tombstone HistoryTombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...
Robin Cole-JettFeb 10, 2018A trip to historic ShreveportIn 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
Robin Cole-JettJan 3, 2016Death DividedI love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...