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Local Bank Basement Served
The school’s first students and teachers accomplished their work, despite the fact that they held their first classes in a gloomy downtown bank building basement. That area served as the Cameron State School of Agriculture’s temporary location while builders constructed a school house on open land two miles west. [1]
1. "Sixty Is Enrollment Of Agricultural College Today. Growing Rapidly,"Daily News Republican, December 20, 1909; "Enrollment Starts," Lawton Constitution Democrat Weekly, November 18, 1909, 4; "To Locate New School," Lawton Constitution Democrat Weekly, November 29, 1909, 1; "It's Up To Lawton--Erection of College Building Starts When Land is Paid for and Deeded to State," Daily News Republican, December 6, 1909, 1; "Auction Sale--Of College Addition Lots by Lawton Chamber of Commerce," Daily News Republican, December 10, 1909, 2; "Started Today Under Most Promising Auspices--Day Bright and Favorable--Band Marshaled Crowd at Early Morn--Made Valiant Charge--At 9 O' clock in Vehicle Pageant; Lawton Spirit Prevailed; List of Purchasers," Daily News Republican, December 14, 1909, 1; "Ready To Execute Deed; College Land," Daily News Republican, December 16, 1909, 1.
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