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Dierks Forests, Inc., known until 1954 as the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company [1] and originally known as Choctaw Lumber Co., [2] was a timber harvesting and processing company primarily in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Starting with a purchase of forest in 1903 in the Indian Territory, near Valliant, [3] the company became known for its concept of the ...
Whited Grist Mill. / 35.41250°N 99.43472°W / 35.41250; -99.43472. The Whited Grist Mill is a historic gristmill located at the National Route 66 & Transportation Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. Ruben Whited built the mill in 1903–04; his family operated the mill for its entire existence. The mill ground corn for Elk City's residents ...
The mill as it appeared in 1917. The Meadow River Lumber Company, which operated in Rainelle, West Virginia from 1906 to 1975, was the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. It had three 9 feet (2.7 m) bandsaws under one roof. In 1928, during peak production, its 500 employees produced 31 million board feet (73 thousand cubic meters) of lumber ...
Barthell, built by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company in 1902. Benham, built and formerly owned by International Harvester. Blackey, built and formerly owned by Blackey Coal Company. Blue Heron, ghost town built by Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. David, built and formerly owned by Princess Elkhorn Coal Company.
Charles Page (June 2, 1860 – December 27, 1926) was a businessman and important philanthropist in the early history of Tulsa, Oklahoma. After his father died when Page was an 11-year-old boy in Wisconsin, he left school early to try to help support his mother and siblings. He had years of struggle before succeeding in business and striking ...
November 14, 2023 at 7:01 AM. September 26, 2023: MEMPHIS, TN - A view of Memphis Towers where more than 160 residents live. The mold that made Andrea Smith sick first showed up on her bathroom ...
Roger Mills County takes its name from Roger Q. Mills, an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later senator from Texas. [4] [5] The town of Cheyenne in Roger Mills County is the location of the Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita; Washita Battlefield and the Washita Massacre), where George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry ...
Kokomo (/ ˈ k oʊ k ə m oʊ / KOH-kə-moh) is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States. [3] Its population was 59,604 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Kokomo metropolitan area, which includes all of Howard County, and it is the largest city and regional center for the North Central Indiana region consisting of ~225,000 people across six ...