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[Photograph 2012.201.B0398.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The oldest church in Oklahoma is this empty stone structure which was built, two miles north of Millerton, McCurtain County, in 1846 as a Choctaw Indian Mission."
Date: February 18, 1953
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Crop Flooding

Description: Photograph of floodwater from a 3. 5 inch rain 18 to 30 hours prior to photo. The different heights of the cotton is due to water standing in the field. This land would be Class I land if it weren’t for flood water. It is producing about 30 percent of what it should be.
Date: July 22, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheelock Mission

Description: Article discusses the history Wheelock Mission and its missionary founder, Reverend Alfred Wright. Lona Eaton Miller describes the work of the founder and his wife, Harriet Bunce Wright, in providing religious service and educational opportunities to the Choctaw people.
Date: Autumn 1951
Creator: Miller, Lona Eaton
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flooding. Floodwater from a 3.5 inch rain 18 to 30 hours prior to the photo's taking. The different heights of the cotton owes to water standing in the field. This land would be class 1 land if not for the flood water. It is producing about 30% of what it should produce. OK-628-7.
Date: July 22, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0398.0219]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wheelock Mission Church near Millerton, southwestern McCurtain County, is recognized as the oldest church in Oklahoma. Of native stone construction, it was built in 1846."
Date: April 5, 1959
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Hay Harvest South of Millerton

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man on a tractor harvesting hay. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting hay following seed harvest on Ky. 31 fescue and ladino clover pasture. Formerly cultivated land row crops and cotton. Capability Unit I. Seedbed preparation: Flat broken July, 1950: disked and rolled as necessary to control vegetation during summer and fall. Seeded 10 lbs. fescue and 2 lbs. ladino clover on October 15, 1950. Fertilizer treatment: 400 lbs. per acre rock phosphate at tim… more
Date: July 30, 1952
Creator: Davis, David O.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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