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Agawam is a ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.

Agawam, Oklahoma
Ghost town
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Coordinates: 34°52′23.8″N 97°56′47.0″W
Country	United States
State	Oklahoma
County	Grady
Elevation	1,240 ft (380 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	1093811[1]

History

Agawam was founded around 1909, when its post office was built; the post office closed in 1918.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4] Agawam was described as a "new oil town" in 1923, when an auction of town lots was held.[5]

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.[6]

Agawam's population was 35 in 1960.[7]

References

External link

• Agawam on GhostTowns.com

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