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Montford placed ranch hand Jack Brown in charge of the Walnut Creek Ranch. [14] As payment for his services, Brown was to receive every fourth calf born on the ranch, making him possibly the first sharecropper of Oklahoma. By fall 1869, Montford moved his family to a new homestead at the site of Camp Arbuckle. Montford began farming a 50-acre ...
The Chickasha Express Star is a Thursday weekly newspaper in Chickasha, Oklahoma. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings LLC. "Newspapers" Archived 2012-07-24 at archive.today , CNHI.com (accessed February 25, 2010).
Chickasha / ˈ tʃ ɪ k ə ʃ eɪ / is a city in and the county seat of Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 16,051 at the 2020 census , a 0.1% increase from 2010. [ 5 ] The city is named for and strongly connected to Native American heritage, as "Chickasha" ( Chikashsha ) is the Choctaw word for Chickasaw .
Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic , which sank in 1912 , and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors.
An entire black community, alive with homes, businesses, churches, and social clubs developed in Chickasha. This community, while by necessity interacting with the larger city in which it thrived, was for the most part an entity unto itself, lacking only an official political voice. The glue that held this community together was the church.
The 2011 Chickasha-Blanchard tornado was a large and extremely violent EF4 tornado that impacted the southern side of Chickasha, Oklahoma and rural areas around Blanchard and Newcastle, Oklahoma in the late afternoon of May 24, 2011.
The Chickasha Street Railway (“CSR”) was the local electrified trolley service in Chickasha, Oklahoma between 1910 and 1927. At its maximum, it had 6.5 miles of ...