Waynoka Station Receives Oklahoma Centennial Funds
The State of Oklahoma is making preparations for a big celebration in 2007 commemorating 100 years of statehood. In the 2005-06 congressional session, the Oklahoma legislature appropriated a total of $18 million for a variety of Oklahoma Centennial projects in the state. Half of the funds went to the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa with the remainder going to other cities and towns.
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Waynoka's Roots in TAT's Routes
By Sandie Olson - Wednesday, December 1, 2004
It was winter 1928-29 when Col. Charles Lindbergh landed his airplane in an alfalfa field about three miles northeast of Waynoka, Oklahoma. Two teenage farm boys, Roscoe and Punk Kelsey, watched him from their home across the road. As he climbed out of the cockpit, they immediately recognized the tall, slender Lindbergh, made famous by his transatlantic flight in 1927.
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Waynoka Depot To Receive TEA-21 Funds
By Sandie Olson - Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has notified Dale Sides, Waynoka City Administrator, that the restoration of the Waynoka Depot is
among the 41 projects approved for funding by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission. Richard Andrews, Special Projects Branch
Manager, made the announcement following the June 4, 2002 meeting of the Commission. Commissioner Edward Sutter, Alva attorney, represents
District 6 on the Commission.
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Museum Receives Oil Painting
By Sandie Olson - Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Robert and Becky Pounds, Temple, Texas, have donated an original oil painting to the Waynoka Historical Society. The artist was the late
Jim Robison, Enid. Robert (Bob) Pounds commissioned the work in 1974 when he served as Special Agent for the Santa Fe Railroad in Waynoka.
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Will Rogers Writes from Waynoka
By Sandie Olson - Saturday, December 11, 2004
Will Rogers, from Claremore, Oklahoma was one of America's best loved and most widely read newspaper columnists until his untimely death in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935. Will was an aviation enthusiast. Evidence indicates he was in Waynoka more than once, taking advantage of the Transcontinental Air Transport coast-to-coast service.
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WHEN THE DALTONS CAME TO WAYNOKA
By E.W. Snoddy, Cattleman, Alva Oklahoma - From the NORTHWEST CATTLEMAN---First Quarter, 1947. Posted 12/20/2004
In the spring of 1892, the Dalton gang robbed the southbound Santa Fe passenger train at Red Rock, Okla., about 10 o'clock at night. Red Rock at that time was just a handful of men and a section house. As the Daltons were leaving, they saw the telegraph operator with his instruments and, believing he was telegraphing news of the hold-up, very callously shot through the window of the office, killing the boy.
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