DemographicsĪs of the census of 2000, there were 1,672 people, 658 households, and 467 families residing in the city. Jim Ross, owner of the Ross Honey Company, gives tours all day and shows the entire honey production process.Ī musical tour of the town by comic Lucas Ross can be seen here.
Every first Saturday of December the town brings in thousands of tourists to the Christmas Honey Festival. It is based on the town having a large number of dairy farmers and Oklahoma's largest beekeeping company, Gibson-Ross Clover Bloom Honey. When you enter town a sign reads: "Welcome to Minco, The Land of Milk and Honey". Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.3 square miles (32 km 2), of which, 12.2 square miles (32 km 2) of it is land and 0.08% is water. Microfilm copies of these papers are available at the Oklahoma Historical Society building, south of the state capital, on the second floor. Minco Herald 1916-1921 (note this time period fills in the Minstrel gap).Minco's earlier newspapers and years of publication since origin are as follows: It is the only newspaper of general circulation maintaining an office in Minco. Minco currently has one weekly newspaper, 'The Minco Millennium', which began publication in the summer of 1998. The Minco Historical Society recently established a museum to exhibit the numerous historical facts associated with the town. In this park there is a plaque commemorating Meta Chestnutt and her contributions to the school.
There is also a community park occupying part of the old campus. After the demolition of the old school building a modern masonry armory was constructed in 1936 and still stands today and serves as a community gathering center. Having faced economic troubles for the whole of its existence it was eventually decommissioned in 1920 due to decreasing enrollment sine the arrival of newer educational institutions that came with statehood. The college offered elementary, grammar, and high school courses along with some music and drama courses. Bond, established the El Meta Bond College, one of the first of its kind in the area. In September 1894 Meta Chestnutt, a teacher from North Carolina determined to bring education to the frontier (specifically Indians), along with the services of J.H. The remains of some of the hotels that were used by the many temporary residents also still stand along its Main Street. In fact, the Hardware Store and Tin Shop originally opened by Kirk Woodworth in 1891 is still in existence in the town. It is the oldest town in the Western part of Oklahoma so its many businesses served residents for many miles around. The town was originally composed mainly of merchants who provided supplies for the many travelers that used the railroad infrastructure of the town. It was known as the Minco Townsite and Investment Company. On October 14, 1901, local citizens formed a company for the purpose of selling vacant lots in the town to encourage settlement. On Augthe Chickasaw Nation's land was opened to white settlement, in turn making Minco a railroad hub for the entire region. The Rock Island Railroad Co.'s original purpose in extending the railroad to Minco was to provide a gateway for the shipping of cattle from the grazing lands of the Chickasaw Nation, just to the south of the town. (Caddo Bill) Williams, owner of the Half Moon Ranch, who started Silver City in 1872 by building a trading store for those cattlemen driving their herds of cattle up the Chisholm Trail. His wife was Miss Maggie (Margaret) Williams, a daughter of W. Campbell owned the occupancy rights of the land that the town was built on.
until the railroad was extended further south two years later. In its early stages it was a very busy town because of its location at the end of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. Minco was originally settled sometime around 1890, several years before Oklahoma achieved statehood.
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