This Road Built With Prison Labor - Turner Falls, OK
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member hamquilter
N 34° 25.628 W 097° 08.744
14S E 670386 N 3811076
This marker is located at the Turner Falls Park area.
Waymark Code: WMXZ4H
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
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As you leave Interstate-35 and enter the Falls Creek area, this marker is located near the driveway to the Curio Shop. It is a roughly cut granite block with a bronze plaque reading:

1925 - 1926
This road built with prison labor
under the direction of
M.E. Trapp / W.S. Key, Warden
Governor of Oklahoma / State Penitentiary
The State Highway Commission
Cyrus S. Avery - Chairman
Roy M. Johnson - Member
F. J. Gentry - Member
J.M. Page - State Highway Engineer

County: Murray

Record Address::
Turner Falls
6250 US-77
Davis, OK USA
73030

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Date Erected: 1926

Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Highway Commission

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