We arrived in Hanna, OK, around noon yesterday. We ate our sandwich while parked in the middle of town.
Hanna has a population of 133 with 56 housing units; a land area land area of 0.11 sq. miles. Nothing was open and it appeared to be deserted.
With a connection via phone with L.C. we walked the area looking for our old house and the cotton gin that Dad operated.
I don't believe the school is the original that L.C. attended but the brick house by the school (according to L.C.) was where they lived before purchasing the house I'm looking for. A young boy (Josh) saw me taking photos and came over to talk. It turned out his family owns the old gin and he took us to the site. We got a extra view of a water moccasin hanging out in the well.
Could not find the old house, we concluded that it was destroyed by a tornado. Hanna seems to attract tornados. Our barn was destroyed when we lived there and Mom had a brick hit her on the hip while trying to get every one in the cellar.
Greg and I didn't realize that the area was actually occupied by mostly Indians, until L.C. told us that Dad was an hononary Chief. Josh said he was of native American blood. I didn't have anything to write on and have forgotten which tribe. He was giving us so much information.
Enjoy the pictures
Brick building in town
second big building
side of school
brick home
old gin..RR entrance
cotton gin
Josh on RR entry
inside gin
looks like stove chimney
Well
well
snake in well
big snake
back side of office
again
Josh inside
inside gin
ceiling
second gin that burned
old foundation
office bldg
looking from gin across road to cemetery & old pond
from road
across from gin at pond location
at pond location toward gin
looking back toward town
gin is located in trees on the right
toward town
PO is small bldg on left...neat brick bldg in downtown
looking north in down town
neat building
again
Donald Hopkins oil company
old foundation left of building
can't make out printing on building
Enjoy the pictures.
We volunteered at the 25th Tinsel Triathlon in Hemet. There were over 1000 participants and the start of the run is in the far left of the picture above the bikes. a little difficult to see. The 5 k run, 12 mile bike and 150 meter swim was centered around the West Valley High School
The three top finishers are in the water. The swimmer entered at the far left in the picture swam to the end, did the turn and swam diagonally across the pool and then down to finish.. This was a save environment for those that didn't do well swimming. I caught several "walking and resting" at the end of the pool
. The final finisher had a person swimming next to him with a life belt. He had a support group waiting for him. I think they were more excited than the person that won , just because he finished. I can relate to that. There were several amputees and 3 in wheel chairs that finished well in the center of the pack. It was very moving to see the excitement.
