Rural Schools of Southwestern Oklahoma
L RURAL SCHOOLS OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA FINAL Museum of the Great Plains Report 96-5 OHS Project No. 40-96-11110.019 L Prepared by Joseph K. Anderson and Susan E. Bearden Submitted by The Institute of the Great Plains P.O. Box 68 l Lawton, OK 73502 L Submitted to l»'.... · Oklahoma Historical Society State Historic Preservation Office 2704 Villa Prom Shepard Mall Oklahoma city, OK 73107 l L January 1998 l J J .J ABSTRACT The nine county area of southwestern Oklahoma included in this study of historic rural schools was divided into the eastern district (formerly part of the Chickasaw-Choctaw Reservation), the central district (formerly the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation), and the western district (formerly a portion of Old Greer County, Texas). The counties investigated were Grady, Stephens, Jefferson, Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa, Tillman, Jackson, and Harmon counties. As originally envisioned, this project was to investigate a ten percent sample of school locations from the different portions of the various counties. This was possible for Stephens, Jefferson, Comanche, Cotton, Tillman, and Jackson counties. Due to the large extent of the study area, however, research was confined to only the southern portions of Grady, Kiowa, and Harmon counties. Between October 1996 and March 1997, the Museum of the Great Plains conducted an archaeological survey of 91 known or suspected L historic rural school locations in southwestern Oklahoma. As a result of this project, 820.5 ha were examined and 9 chipped stone artifact scatters, 6 historic farmsteads, 2 multicomponent sites, L 1 paleontological locality, 27 isolated occurrences, and 6 current cultural manifestations were documented in addition to the school L locations.
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