Keetonville, Oklahoma is near my hometown of Catoosa, Oklahoma and I have had an interest–perhaps an obsession–with the beautiful yet mysterious Keetonville Hill ever since I heard about the legend of the Cry Baby Bridge when I was a teenager.
Tag Archives: Keetonville
Rufus Keeton started small town of Keetonville Oklahoma
April 4, 2009 – 18:29
A posting on a genealogy website asserts that a Rufus Keeton started the town of Keetonville, Oklahoma around the 1890s. Could it be true?
The Cry Baby Bridge of Catoosa Oklahoma
March 31, 2009 – 19:03
Boggy Creek, in the Keetonville Hill near Catoosa, Oklahoma within Rogers County, flows south into the Verdigris River. A Pratt through truss bridge built in 1910 crosses Boggy Creek just before the creek reaches the river. This bridge known as the Boggy Creek Bridge was bypassed in 2001.
The Cry Baby Bridge Video Project
February 23, 2009 – 16:09
The fun in writing a story is research. I am in the process of writing a short story titled, “Beneath the Cry Baby Bridge.” The story will be about five-thousand words long. The main characters are Lonny Roebuck and his pal Reggie Wallace. The story takes place in Keetonville, Oklahoma.
Bigfoot in Keetonville
February 14, 2009 – 18:51
I wrote and posted the story A Creature in Keetonville on the Storiesville website on December 22, 2008. The story is about a Bigfoot sighting in Keetonville, Oklahoma. There are two elements in that story which have fascinated me for several years: Bigfoot and the Keetonville Bridge.
