Last night I posted about the mill at Jefferson, OK… There was a lot more that we saw on that trip… some a bit unusual and a lot of it history… on the way north of Pond Creek I was reminded by my wife, that she had read in some Facebook post that the kids from out by Jet had rented this round barn for the prom… didn’t know there was another “Round Barn” but it is there just off highway 81..
Just up from the “Round Barn” we came across this “historical marker” or after a little false start we thought maybe a Hysterical Marker?
Good prank… we thought about it and of course went the wrong way – followed the arrow because there were two bolts in the bottom sign… but turns out it was up-side-down…
We did go back to the right and found this marker…
If you can’t read it it says “on this spot are buried two cowboys who gave their lives in winning the frontier to civilization. Tom Best rode south from Kansas in 1872 to join the Texas cattle drives, but was killed by hostile Indians a short distance north of this point. Ed Chambers , in 1873, rode north with a herd from Texas and he too was killed by Indians about a mile south east of here”… the monument was erected in 1937 as a WPA historical marker… This marker was on the south side of the rode just before the railroad tracks… It was a shame we didn’t go on over or know of the park on the other side of the tracks to the north… maybe next time
Note the Rock Island Park in lower right… the monument was just to the left of the track crossing road E0210Rd,
Later after leaving Jefferson I got this spotting of the old thrashing machine… no longer used while combines were cutting wheat just in the field ahead…
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Then it became evident that in the past someone had sold the farmers in this area real well on putting in “Silos” we saw numerous of these in nearly every old field..
I got several pictures in Garber but these were the most interesting for today…
A small town of many old churches but the others all were taken into the sun and this is the best of the ones I got… I really need to do a better job of taking pictures..
So that was the afternoon diversion off the main highway to visit “out of the way” places… you should really try it sometime… you never know what you might see..
REX