Saturday, September 17, 2011

CROSSING GUARD


MILTON


Shedeck Elementary School offered this Centennial Longhorn to celebrate Oklahoma's 100 year birthday. Milton Shedeck was an educator and later President of 'The First National Bank of Yukon'. Donating His time and money He is still remembered  by our citizens.



Keeping an ever vigilant watch over this School Crossing, He is determined to keep His kids safe!

Note: The ' Miller Man ' is shown in the logo. Our school name is The Yukon Millers. In the early days the Yukon Flour Mills were the lifeblood of our town. The Miller Man was the worker in the mill who processed the wheat into flour,hence, The Miller Man!

5 comments:

  1. You did it again, you got the lighting right especially in the top photo. Nice shooting!

    Just out of interest how many years ago was the Yukon area settled? Sounds like quite a rich history in this area some of which you have eluded to in a number of your posts.

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  2. If we have one of these around my neighborhood, you going to see kids climbing allover it.

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  3. I'm glad you explained "the Miller Man", I was thinking of a different kind of Miller! LOL

    I'm with Paul, you go the lighting right on these. The top one is especially good just because the shadows highlight the details in the steer.

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  4. Yukon was founded in 1891 by A.N. Spencer and his brother, Lewis. A.N. was a Texas cattleman who had driven cattle up the Chisholm Trail thru Yukon to Kansas. After the Trail had closed A.N. became a Railroad builder. While building the railroad thru this area He decided to lay out a town calling it Yukon after the Yukon Gold Rush.

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