So, I don’t actually have a story to about why Pumpkin Center is called Pumpkin Center, but I do have some interesting, random, Pumpkin Center facts. I was looking for information on Pumpkin Center, MO, (where Kay Barnes’ mother was born), to continue the Missouri theme, and found that since the highway was put in […]
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Slapout
There are at least two towns called Slapout in the United States, and it looks like they both got their name in pretty much the same way. During the depression, highway three was built across Oklahoma. Where it passed his land, a fellow named Tom Lemons moved a chicken coop over to the highway and […]