Long Lost Lafayette
This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Garland in Bowie
East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland. Now consisting mostly of a...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
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
- May 15, 2022
Success by trial
The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 6, 2021
George Conrad, Buffalo Soldier
In 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Humble historic home
Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Training School
Two miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Tatums Oil
Tatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Great War Soldier
Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace history. And the history gathered from a tombstone needn't be from your...
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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 9, 2020
An academy for Freedmen
Oak Hill Industrial School in 1905 was established for freed people, formerly enslaved by the Choctaws, near today’s Valliant in Indian...
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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
- Oct 15, 2019
Recipes and Memories
Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...
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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
- May 14, 2018
Coal Country
(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 14, 2018
Tombstone History
Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...
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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
- Jan 3, 2016
Death Divided
I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...
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