American Auto Trails

January 23

Forgotten Landmark-National Youth Admin Roadside Rest Area, Gum Springs (AR)
This roadside rest area is located on U.S. Highway 67, just south of Duke Road, between Gum Springs and Curtis, Arkansas.  The plaque on the cracked wall states this rest area was constructed by the National Youth Administration in 1936.  The rest area is on the north side of the abandoned earlier roadway of U.S.

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January 21

Forgotten Landmark-Old Frederick Douglass High School, Oklahoma City (OK)
The first African American school in OKC was founded in 1891, and would later become Douglass High (named for the famous ex-slave author and abolitionist). It has had a somewhat troubled and nomadic existence. The first location of the school suspiciously burned down, and the second location was grossly inadequate and in an unsafe, industrial

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Forgotten Landmark-Goodholm House, Oklahoma City (OK)
Construction was started in 1899 by Andrew Goodholm, one of the first millers in Oklahoma City. He was also a city councilman, builder, developer, lumber dealer and an officer of the first packing plant. Goodholm was organizer of the Acme Milling Company, an early flour mill, and headed a company that built the original Sears

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January 16

Forgotten Landmark-Farmers Public Market, Oklahoma City (OK)
Built in 1928, this structure comprises a main building, occupying the center of a block, and sheds. The two-story main building, finished in three-tone buff stucco with terra-cotta colored trim, was designed by Gaylord B. Noftager in the modified Spanish style. It has an auditorium on the second floor, used for athletic events, and shops

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December 17

Endangered Landmark-Greenwood House, Greensboro (AL)
Greenwood might be considered two houses in one.  When attorney Sydenham Moore built the present handsome Greek-Revival residence in 1856, he incorporated materials and decorative features from an even older dwelling — the original “Greenwood” from which the house takes its name.  This first Greenwood was the plantation home of Governor Israel Pickens, built on

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