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Pine Ridge, Oklahoma
Pine Ridge is an unincorporated community in Hale Township, Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located south of Fort Cobb at the junction of County Road 1380 and County Street 2550. History According to locals, the community got its name from the community of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, that was the setting of the radio show ''Lum and Abner'' which aired from 1934 to 1952. Legend says that the owner of the grocery store named it "Pine Ridge" after the radio show and over time the name was adopted as the name of the whole community. During the community's heyday in the 1940s there was a hub of activity at the main junction of the Ozark Trail and the Fort Cobb road, with a grocery store and two churches, Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church and Pine Ridge Church of Christ (founded on May 1, 1949 but later merged into the Fort Cobb Church of Christ. By the 1950 and 1960's the community went into a time of decline with the grocery store closing and eventually the closing of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
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Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
Fort Cobb is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 634 at the 2010 census. History Fort Cobb was established as a U.S. Army frontier post in Indian Territory on October 1, 1859, east of the present location of the town. The fort was named after Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb, a friend of the founding officer, Major William Emory. The post was later occupied by both Southern and Northern forces during the Civil War, the Union taking control of the fort as part of the 1862 Tonkawa massacre. Later, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's command was encamped at Fort Cobb from December 18, 1868, to January 6, 1869. Shortly after that, on March 12, 1869, the fort was abandoned in favor of a location to the south near the Wichita Mountains, and renamed Fort Sill. , KS-Cyclopedia - 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache, Oklahoma
Apache is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,444 at the 2010 census. History Before opening the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation on August 1, 1901, for unrestricted settlement by non-Indians, Land Lottery Director William A. Richards had recommended setting aside the land now occupied by Apache as a townsite. He had expected the community would be named "Richards" in his honor. Instead, officials of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway (Rock Island) named the community Apache. A land run for lots in Apache was held on August 6, 1901. According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture,'' five lumberyards and six saloons opened for business within hours after the run. A tent served as a market for groceries. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broxton, Oklahoma
Broxton is an unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. It was originally intended to form an actual town with 50 town lots. Broxton had an independent school district until the 1990s, but it was consolidated with the Fort Cobb school district, becoming Fort Cobb-Broxton Public Schools The community of Pine Ridge was also served by the Broxton school district. Broxton in fiction Broxton and the surrounding regions have been an important setting of Marvel Comics' series ''Thor'' since the late 2000s. The Norse god Thor's home Asgard became a floating landmass outside of Broxton. Although the Asgardians were welcomed by the locals, in the 2011 miniseries '' Fear Itself'', Odin, resentful of being made the recipient of humans' altruism, and sensing the return of an ancient enemy, leads his people back to Asgard's former location. See also *List of Oklahoma school districts by county This list only includes the public school districts in the state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woods And Waters Winery And Vineyard
Woods and Waters Winery and Vineyard was the first commercial winery in Caddo County, Oklahoma. It was located on the old Ozark Trail southwest of Anadarko and east of the community of Pine Ridge. The winery was established in 1998 as part of a ranch. There were planted in different varieties of ''vinifera'' grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Zinfandel, Merlot, Chardonnay, Riseling, Gewürztraminer, and Muscat Blanc. The winery also produced several blends including "Rose of Caddo" (a blended red sweet dessert wine) as well as their own port wine. The winery was the first Oklahoma producer of Eiswein Ice wine (or icewine; german: Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing for a more concentrated grape .... The winery also had a small bistro that was open for lunch and wine tastings on Saturday. Winemaker Dale Pound died from the CO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozark Trail (auto Trail)
The Ozark Trail was a network of locally maintained roads and highways organized by the Ozark Trails Association that predated the United States federal highway system. The roads ran from St. Louis, Missouri, to El Paso, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a series of routes. These roads were maintained by both private citizens and local communities. In one case, however, the U.S. government was directly involved; it built the Newcastle Bridge in 1923 over the South Canadian River between Newcastle, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City, as the first federal highway project built in Oklahoma. These roads comprised the major highway system in the region until U.S. Highway 66 was built in the 1920s. In Oklahoma, portions of the section-line roads between Anadarko and Hobart are still referred to as "The Old Ozark Trail." Route The Ozark Trails Association were a group of private citizens that tried to encourage local municipalities to build and maintain road systems in the Ozarks in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pineridge2 , United States
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Pineridge may refer to: * Pineridge, Bahamas * Pineridge, Calgary, Alberta, Canada * Pineridge, California Pineridge (formerly, Kenyon and Pine Ridge) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located southwest of Shaver Lake Heights, at an elevation of 4842 feet (1476 m). The Kenyon post office opened in 1890, the name wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saddle Mountain, Oklahoma
Saddle Mountain is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States, along State Highway 115. The Saddle Mountain Post Office existed from January 2, 1902, until May 31, 1955. It was named for the Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission which opened in 1903. Saddle Mountain, a foothill of the Wichita Mountains lies about a mile to the southeast in Comanche County. Monroe Tsatoke, a Kiowa artist, was born here in 1904, when it was still part of Oklahoma Territory.Lester, Patrick D. ''The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters.'' Norman and London: The Oklahoma University Press, 1995: 571. . This land was allotted to the Spotted Horse family at the beginning of the 20th century and is said to be worth from $16–20 million. See also * Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary who helped the Kiowa Kiowa () people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lum And Abner
''Lum and Abner'' was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town. Synopsis The series was created by co-stars Chester Lauck (who played Columbus "Lum" Edwards) and Norris Goff (Abner Peabody). Lum always pronounced his own name as Ed'erds and was very annoyed if Abner or anyone brought up his full first name. The two characters performed as a double act, with Lum generally playing the straight man to Abner's attempts to break free from Lum's influence. As co-owners of the Jot 'em Down Store in the fictional town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, the pair are constantly stumbling upon moneymaking ideas only to find themselves fleeced by nemesis Squire Skimp, before finally finding a way to redeem themselves. Lum a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Ridge (Lum And Abner)
Pine Ridge, Arkansas, was the fictional setting for the radio program ''Lum and Abner'', which ran for 13 weeks every year from 1932 to 1954 on WNBC (AM), WNBC. It was based on the town of Waters, Arkansas, and some of its residents. Subsequently, the real town of Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge, Arkansas, Pine Ridge by a vote of the city council and the community of Pine Ridge, Oklahoma also was named after the fictional town. ''Lum Edwards'' and ''Abner Peabody'' were the main characters. The radio show was a comedic look at rural life in the The Great Depression, Depression and World War II era. Other characters in the show included ''Mousey Gray'', ''Cedric Wehunt'', and ''Squire Skimp''. In the series, Lum and Abner were the owners of the ''Jot 'Em Down Store''. Some of their misadventures included a failed experiment in creating a bank (first season), getting swindled by a counterfeit money printer (Diogenes Smith – who introduced the phrase "Wonderful World" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Ridge, Arkansas
Pine Ridge is an unincorporated community in Oden Township, Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States. It is located at . The original name was Waters, but the name was changed in 1936 to Pine Ridge through a vote of the city's town council. Waters was the basis for the fictional town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas on the radio show ''Lum and Abner'', and the name of the real town was changed to honor and match the fictional one that made it famous. Since that time, Pine Ridge has lost its incorporation and no longer has a municipal government. The two oldest buildings in Pine Ridge, the Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store, both of which date to the first decade of the 20th century, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and currently serve as a Lum and Abner museum and replica of the "Jot'em Down" general store heard in the radio series. See also * Jot Em Down, Texas * Jot-Um-Down, North Carolina * Pine Ridge, Oklahoma Pine Ridge is an unincorporated commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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