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Nicole Marth (left) shops at The Vintage Phoenix with her son Colson Marth in Broken Arrow on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
Gary and Ruth Beatie with their 5-year-old Boston terrier Daisy at their home in Broken Arrow on Tuesday. The Beaties have volunteered at the Salvation Army to serve the Christmas holiday meal since 1997. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
The Chick-fil-A cow mascot greets patient Gavin Cuthill, 10, of Broken Arrow and his mother, Kelly Cuthill, at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis, where Keith Boyd (not pictured), 10, and the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain passed out lemonade and
A red shouldered hawk sits in a tree in Donna Rennhack’s backyard. She said the hawk lives in her Broken Arrow neighborhood. Photo by Donna Rennhack
food to patients on Christmas Eve. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Michelle Turner (right) helps Kathryn Bible pick out chocolates at the Nouveau chocolate shop in Broken Arrow on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
John Herndon, president of First National Bank in Broken Arrow, stands in the bank lobby on Tuesday. Herndon will soon retire after more than 40 years in the banking business. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
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Broken Arrow’s Trent Cantrell is guarded by Bixby’s Payton Sullivan during a basketball game on Dec. 19. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Broken Arrow’s Josh Holliday tries to get around Bixby’s Zack Christopolous during a game on Dec. 19. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
A construction crew works on scafolding at a Rose District business in Broken Arrow on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
Broken Arrow’s Ben Crider and Jacob Knutson battle with a Bixby player for a rebound. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Broken Arrow’s Kelson Goins is guarded by Bixby’s Chase Pivarnik. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Zach Pfaf, owner of Spoke House Bicycles in Broken Arrow, works on a bike on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
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Looking Back at Broken Arrow
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hat is a state school of agriculture? Even though it was considered a college, students received a high school diploma. They studied mechanics, the arts, domestic science and agriculture. The Broken Arrow
Ledger headline proclaimed “Broken Arrow Jubilant” and church bells rang throughout the community after the announcement that the town had been selected as the location of the Haskell State School of Agriculture. Broken Arrow had to furnish 80 acres of land. The school was located at 808 E. College St. Plans were made for the design of the building, which would need to serve 300 students. It was made of brick, with 14 rooms, and had three loors. Students came from 15 counties and boarded with local families, as there were no dormitories. Besides the classroom building, other structures were added to the property. There was a barn, creamery, caretaker’s house and poultry houses. There were grain ields, gardens, a ish hatchery and pond. While the building was still being built, classes began at the Opera House on Main Street. The cornerstone was laid and a ceremony held in May 1910. The building was inished in May 1911. Due to state appropriation cuts, the school was closed in 1917. The buildings and the land were given to Broken Arrow Public Schools, which used the main structure for over 60 years. Many remember it as the “Fine Arts Building.” It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. This is a program through the National Park System to “protect
Kamryn Marth carries a frame as she walks between stalls at The Vintage Phoenix
America’s historic and archeological resources.” As the years went by, the building began to deteriorate and, in 1987, the Broken Arrow Board of Education decided it needed to be
in Broken Arrow on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
demolished. Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society
Johanna Brown makes
A tractor sits outside
candy at the Nouveau
a barn at a residence in
chocolate shop in Broken
Broken Arrow on Tuesday.
Arrow on Tuesday.
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Terry Radclif restocks
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facility’s bookshelves were
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lowered during a recent
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