Английская Википедия:Agawam, Oklahoma

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Agawam is a ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.

History

Agawam was founded around 1909, when its post office was built; the post office closed in 1918.[1]

On 19 October 1915, two Rock Island Railroad trains collided head-on here, a southbound passenger train and a northbound freight train, resulting in seven fatalities and numerous injuries; engineer William Powell was blamed for the accident.[2]

In October 1922, it was announced that Agawam, located on the main line of the Rock Island Railroad, would become a shipping point for a gas field in Grady County, due to its location: four miles from the Oklahoma Gas Company's pumping station.[3] Agawam was described as a "new oil town" in 1923, when an auction of town lots was held.[4]

A gymnasium was completed in 1935. In 1955, Agawam had a grade school with a "small enrollment", but it was large enough to field a very good girls' basketball team that, over the course of three years, had amassed 90 wins against four losses, despite usually only having seven players.[5]

Agawam's population was 35 in 1960.[6]

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