Rural Schools of Southwestern Oklahoma (Final, Museum of the Great Plains Report 96-5)
Anderson JK, Bearden SE, The Institute of the Great Plains. 1998. Rural Schools of Southwestern Oklahoma (Final, Museum of the Great Plains Report 96-5). Oklahoma Historical Society
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 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, 1 paleontological locality, 27 isolated occurrences, and 6 current cultural manifestations were documented in addition to the school locations. This project was financed, in part, with funds provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society and the National Park Service. One of the objectives of the project was not only to increase the area inventoried for cultural resources within southwestern Oklahoma but also to document historic rural school locations for the purpose of potentially integrating the information to the historic context for the region. Funding was provided in part by a 1996 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office (project number OK-96-019, grant number 40-96-11110) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Anderson, Joseph; Bearden, Susan; The Institute of the Great Plains
- Date of Issue
- 1998-01
- Publisher
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Resource Surveys (Resource Type)