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Author - Emily Cowan

Emily is a two-time published author of "Abandoned Oklahoma: Vanishing History of the Sooner State" and "Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World". With over two hundred published articles on our websites. Exploring since 2018 every aspect of this has become a passion for her. From educating, fighting to preserve, writing, and learning about history there is nothing she would rather do.

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Camp Mintahama

I can still picture waking up on a morning in early summer, spending the whole night before packing and triple checking my checklist to make sure I had all the things I would need on the adventure...

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4 Acre Motel

The once beautiful 4 Acre Motel was constructed around 1940 and dubbed the “Prosperous for All”. With its 24 rooms in a “Liberty-style” building, a family restaurant, cocktail lounge, 24...

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Olivia Apartments

Olivia Apartments Hotel In 1906 a building permit was issued in Joplin for the “Olivia Apartment Hotel” for $150,000. The genius behind one of the first luxury apartments in the Joplin...

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Hailey School House

In November 1884 the plot of land that would in time become home of the Hailey School house was purchased by William McKinney and Newton L. & Nancy Hailey. Nancy (McKinnley) Hailey was the...

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson Elementary School began (and ended) as a neighborhood school built in 1930. It was almost visually identical to Columbia Elementary, Alcott Elementary, West Central Elementary, and the...

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Belmont Casket Factory

While not much written documentation of the Belmont Casket Factory in Crane Missouri, what is documented paints a pretty interesting story. Built prior to the 1960s, the Belmont Casket Factory was...

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Metro North Mall

The Pleasure of Shopping… Metro North! The Metro North Mall while a few years late to the surge of malls the 1960s still brought one of the best eye appeals of the 70s. The mall officially...

Crane Jail

Crane Jail

A few newspaper reports about the Crane Jail detail some of the harrowing things that this jail saw. The Crane Chronicle January 10, 1935 – Leonard Short was named one of four bandits who...

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Red Oak ll Jail

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Goodman Jail

If you know anything about the Goodman Historic Jail please reach out to us at board@abandonedatlas.com!
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