Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Falls School, district 31

Now that the weather has turned nice, my first photo essay will be here, Falls School, district 31 in Cleveland county.

Rootsweb has this to say about it:(http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okccogs/schools/schooldistricts-legals.htm)

"FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 31: Northeast corner of Section 29-9N-1W. Now 1130 84th Ave NE, Norman. Name taken from the Little River Falls which were nearby."



Here's a picture of it at night.



And right across the road is a path or road to the inlet for the City of Norman's supply pipeline from Lake Thunderbird. Norman's water treatment plant is at 3000 E Robinson, literally just a few miles east of Falls School.

Look for the pictures to be up later this weekend or early next week.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Spring Creative Craft Festival

Spring Creative Craft Festival

Saturday, mar27, 9am - 4 pm

Free Parking & Admission, concessions available.

90+ Craft booths

Cleveland County Fairgrounds
615 E. Robinson, Norman
360-4721

www.clevelandcountyfair.org

Cole Announces Town Hall Meetings

(from the 3/21/10 Norman Transcript p. A3)

U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, will hold 10 town hall meetings over the next few weeks. Cole will be available to answer questions and address concerns about federal legislation. members of Cole's staff also will be available to assist residents with federal casework.

"These town hall meetings are a great opportunity to get feedback from Fourth District residents, and I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's ideas and concerns," Cole said.

"With everything that's going on in Washington these days, these forums play a valuable role in shaping debate. I invite everyone to participate and share their views."

More information is available from Cole's Norman office 329-6500 for more information about the town hall meetings. The meetings include 5:30 p.m. March 31 at the Moore Norman Technology Center, Franklin Road Campus, in Norman; noon March 30 at the Murray County Expo Center, 4000 W Highway 7 in Sulphur; 5:30 p.m. April 1 in Lawton at the Comanche County Fairgrounds Annex; 5:30 p.m. April 5 at the Mustang Town Center in Mustang; noon April 6 at the Pauls Valley High School Auditorium; 5:30 p.m. April 7 at the McSwain Theatre in Adal; noon April 8 at the First Baptist Church in Madill; 5:30 p.m. April 8 in Ardmore; noon April 9 in Waurika and 5:30 p.m. April 12 at Rose State College in Midwest City.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Late Season Winter Storm Possible




Looks like Cleveland County may get one last bit of cold and wet weather before springtime.




Saturday, March 13, 2010

Oklahoma Railway Through Moore To Norman



I took this from a 1947 map of the State of Oklahoma available at http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1947.pdf. In it you can see a) Robinson Ave in Norman is OK highway 74, and b) the path of the Oklahoma Railway Company (interurban) as opposed to the Santa Fe's track.

Something that I think is really neat in this also is the Farm to Market road just to the east of Moore. It's the road running due north from US-77 to US-270 and has "FM" in a diamond with an arrow pointing to it. Is that Sunylane? sooner? Bryant? I almost want to say it's Eastern. Thoughts anyone?