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[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0467]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Huge aggregate piles line the Eastern Turnpike from Henryetta to McAlester as contractors prepare to pave the 41-mile section A, about 10 of which are nearing completion."
Date: June 9, 1965
Creator: Granger, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0261.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New Turnpike lanes in construction near the Oklahoma City gate will curve on either side of the old roadway to carry traffic above the future Lake Arcadia's 100-year flood plain."
Date: April 17, 1985
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0351]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A marvel when it was dreamed up and built, and now an important link in the nation's interstate highway system, the Turner Turnpike turned 35 years old Monday."
Date: May 16, 1988
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0468]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Toll Road construction, a popular subject with Gov. Bellmon this year, is far ahead of schedule on the north section of the Eastern Turnpike between Henryetta and McAlester."
Date: January 11, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0352]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Turner Turnpike is getting rough. As the above picture show, the 6 1/2-year-old toll road is cracked over long stretches, and it has rough patches on some localities."
Date: December 22, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0473]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Last Blast went off Saturday as major dynamiting was completed in grading the roadbed of the Eastern Turnpike section from Henryetta to McAlester."
Date: January 10, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0456]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eastern Turnpike grading now extends southwest of Eufaula on the section A leg from Henryetta to McAlester, and a toll plaza is scheduled to be built at this junction with S.H. 9 above."
Date: October 26, 1964
Creator: State Staff Photos
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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