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HOMES of OLNEY

HOMES of OLNEY

The lot on which this hot is situated began being traded in 1924, and you must recall that the oil boom started in 1923. Also, you must remember that housing was scarce and that some people may have lived on this bare lot with only a tent over their heads. You could have a wooden floor that you fit the tent over and have water and gas connections. The City did not make sewer connections mandatory until immediately after the end of World War II.

We won the lottery by birth

We won the lottery by birth

Last February as the Super Bowl was going on, I chose to watch Trey Gowdy’s “Sunday Night in America.” In one of the segments he talked about people around the world who do not have the privileges that we take for granted as citizens of America. At our southern border we see people from around the world doing what ever it takes to gain entry into our United States.

The Richardson-Melchor House
The Richardson-Melchor House

The Richardson-Melchor House

In 1917, John Wilson (1851-1929) Groves sold this lot to Guy Richardson. In 1919, Guy and his wife Bertha executed a mechanic’s lien to T.S.Utley to build a five-room house on this lot. Still that same year the Richardsons sold the property to Jim Barnett and his wife, Nettie Lunn Barnett, a sister to W.N. Lunn.

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