While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
In the spring of 1904, as there was no one available to manage it, the school
was closed, and a student was entrusted with the care of the buildings, stock
and crops.
As this was the year the land in Indian
Territory was allotted to the Indians and
their former slaves, individually, Mr.
Haymaker remained until he secured the
allotment of two tracts of forty acres each,
on which the buildings of the academy were
located, one to a graduate student and the
other to a friendly full blood Choctaw
woman; with the understanding that, when the
restrictions should be removed, the
allottees or owners would sell them to the
Board of Missions for Freedmen, to be held
and used as a permanent site for the
institution.
In August Miss Bertha L. Ahrens of Grant,
a missionary teacher of the Board, became
the custodian of the buildings and other
property belonging to the institution.
A few days later, Solomon Buchanan, a
former student from Texas, returned and
making his home there, began to take care of
the stock and crops. His general efficiency,
manifest interest and good staying quality
enabled him to become ever since a very
valuable helper, during term time.
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Choctaw Freedmen and Oak Hill Industrial
Academy, 1914, Robert Elliott Flickinger
