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Old Lookout

Woods County,NW Oklahoma

I was reading in the "History of Northwest Oklahoma" about some interesting little tidbits about "Old Lookout & Day Creek School District #24." I found out that Mr. Kent built a store in 1902 and named the community "Lookout" (1-mile east of the Day Creek school). In 1905, the postoffice was established with Mr. Kent as postmaster. Other postmasters were... McCue, Jackson, Wares, Patton, Marsel, Sullen, Ferguson, Mitcul, Doty, Neckisch, Brate, Morrow.

Lookout had a blacksmith shop with Mr. Hayes as the smith. Old Lookout was located 40 miles from Coldwater, Kansas and 18 miles from Freedom in Northwest Oklahoma Territory. Some of the mail carriers for that area around Lookout were... Sam Evert, A. M. Woodard, Ed Jenkins, John Swartz, August Neckirch, James Wardrop, Almer Davison, James Schroeder, and Herman Fuller.

Day Creek School Dist. 24... About a mile and a half west of the community of Lookout was the Day Creek School (District 24). It was first held in a dugout with 1 window and door on eastside and half mile northwest where the school is now. The school was held three (3) months in the dougout until Hayes, Dick & George Hackney built the new schoolhouse. It was one of the first schools to be built in Woods County. It was named for the creek that ran south of the schoolhouse. Do any of you former, residents of northwest Oklahoma have any old pictures of the Day Creek School or Old Lookout?

History of Moundridge School Dist. #114

Photos of Moundridge School Dist. #114 & Lookout Sunday School Class