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.
A posting on a genealogy website asserts that a Rufus Keeton started the town of Keetonville, Oklahoma around the 1890s. Could it be true?
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.
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.