1908 Indian Territory-Ardmore Loan and Trust Co Check-Ardmore Okla. Chickasaw (A

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3/31/1908 Ardmore Loan and Trust Co. Ardmore Indian Territory .25 Check. Printed cancelations on back: Durant National Bank Durant Indian Territory. First National Bank Hugo, I.T., Merchants and Planters National Bank Sherman, Texas, The First Nation Bank Idabel, Okla. Please see photos for detail before buying.
ARDMORE.
Incorporated in 1899, the south-central Oklahoma community of Ardmore is situated just east of Interstate 35 on U.S. Highway 77, ninety-seven miles south of Oklahoma City. It serves as the county seat for Carter County and was established in 1887 in the former Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory when the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway were laid across the Roff Brothers' Seven Hundred Ranch. From a cattle-loading station, the town became a trading center for farmers and ranchers and a market for cotton. In 1913 the discovery of the Healdton Field brought growth to the city.
The town is named for Ardmore, Pennsylvania, which sits along the Pennsylvania Railroad. A Santa Fe crew foreman, previously been employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, suggested the name. The Ardmore post office opened in October 1887.
Located between the Arbuckle Mountains on the north and the Red River on the south, Ardmore flourished to twenty-five hundred residents by 1890, and in 1895 more than ten thousand bales of cotton were marketed there. When a fire started in a livery stable in 1895, nearly every wooden building in town burned. Bricks and stone were then applied to the rebuilding of the community.
In 1903 a grant was received for the establishment of the Ardmore Carnegie Library (NR 00000620), which is one of seventeen Ardmore properties presently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Others include the Carter County Courthouse (NR 85000678), completed in 1910, and the Ardmore Historic Commercial District (NR 83002080). Beginning in 1906 Ardmore's streets were paved and an interurban system was installed. In 1908 local agricultural resources remained dominant with cotton being primary, but attention was being turned to the mineral deposits surrounding the town. That same year Ardmore had thirty-one factories, 130 retail stores, seven banks, and nineteen churches. The Oklahoma Confederate Veterans Home was located there from 1911 until 1942.
Two years after the Healdton Field was discovered, disaster struck on September 27, 1915, when a gasoline tank car exploded in the Ardmore railroad yard. Most of the downtown area was demolished, forty-three people died, and hundreds were injured. As a result of the oil boom, Ardmore became a refinery center. Samuel Lloyd Noble, a local oilman and philanthropist, used his wealth to establish the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation at Ardmore in 1945.
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