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Gage, OK - History
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Welcome to the Gage Home page. The Gage Home page provides as much information as possible on Gage. Knowing Gage’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gage’s Home page, you will also find Gage’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Gage has a population of 395. 45.1% of Gage’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.9 are female. 49.5% of Gage is married and 69.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $59,530, and the average rent is $750. Household median income in Gage is $45,000, and the individual median income is $24,500. Gage’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.4%), Multiple(10.9%), Native(0.8%), Hispanic(0.5%).
Located in the central part of Ellis County on SH-46, thirteen miles north of the county seat, Arnett, and on SH-15, twenty-one miles southwest of Woodward, Gage developed primarily because of transportation access. The military road from Fort Supply to Fort Elliott/Mobeetie, Texas, passed near the future town, and two miles to the northwest a stage stop existed at the confluence of Little Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek.
In 1887 the Southern Kansas Railway (later part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) had constructed a line across northwestern Oklahoma from Kansas to the Texas Panhandle. A station called Gage, named for Chicago railroad financier Lyman J. Gage, was established in July near Wolf Creek. Once the domain of various Plains Indian groups, by that time this region had become part of the Cherokee Outlet, opened to settlement by a land run in September 1893. After that, Woodward County included the site of future Gage.
A year after the run several settlers, including John Barr and Frederick D. Webster, took up land near the railroad stop. A post office was designated in February 1895, with Webster as postmaster. By 1898 the community was big enough to support a half dozen stores, a hotel, and a sawmill. In 1901 activity surrounding the opening of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands, to the south, attracted new people to the town and farmers to purchase land nearby.
The town's residents voted to incorporate a six-block area in May 1904. Eighteen months later, anti-liquor campaigner and Guthrie resident Carrie Nation, on one of her lecture tours through Oklahoma Territory, made a brief visit to Gage's saloons and met a cold reception. In 1907, when Ellis County was created, taking in this part of Woodward County, Gage's 1907 population stood at 755 and in 1910 at 924, the all-time peak. The growing community served as a cattle and grain shipping point for the surrounding area.
Prosperity in the first decade after incorporation attracted two banks, five lumberyards, and more than two dozen retail establishments. Two cotton gins, a roller mill, and three elevators served farmers. The Brennecke Metal Manufacturing Company made water and stock tanks. A theater and the Wolf Valley Cornet Band provided entertainment.
Travelers patronized three hotels and five restaurants. Residents could attend any one of three churches, and children attended a large school building. Like most rural centers, Gage suffered a decline in the World War I years, but the ideally located railroad town remained viable, as it was some distance from towns of any size.
Newspapers serving the residents have included the Ellis County Advocate, the Ellis County Republican, the Gage Banner, and the Gage Record, with the latter continuing in existence at the end of the twentieth century. In 1920 the town had 804 inhabitants Because of the flat terrain and good weather, the U.S.
Army maintained a 720-acre bomber-pilot training field outside Gage during World War II. In the 1940s and 1950s Gage supported two dozen retail stores, gasoline stations, and other commercial establishments. The 1940 census recorded 684 inhabitants, and the 1960 census, 482. After paved highways allowed commuting to jobs in Woodward and Shattuck, Gage's population rose to 536 and 667 in 1970 and 1980, respectively.
Folk artist Jim Powers, whose "junk yard art" was created in welded metal, made Gage his base of operations. Powers' created several "Jimmy Bird" statues, which are still in high demand today. Charlie's Bar and Grill, (36.32044°N 99.75704°W / 36.32044; -99.75704) located downtown Main Street, has the distinction of having the longest continuous operating bar and grill in Ellis County, as well as throughout much of the western strip of Oklahoma.
The Bank of Gage, a turn-of-the-century two-story brick building on Main Street, is on the National Register of Historic Places in Ellis County, Oklahoma. Ranching and farming are still the community's economic mainstay. Gage Airport is still operating, based around the former military runways. In 1904 the National Weather Service established a regional climate station at Gage, and the station served the Civil Aviation Authority/FAA at Gage Airport from 1939.
The FAA portion of the facility moved to McAlester in the 1990s, but the weather service maintained an unmanned station at the Gage location, which by 2004 had been gathering weather data for a century. After declining to 473 in 1990, Gage finished the twentieth century with a population of 429. Gage Public Schools consolidated with Fargo Public Schools in the summer of 2016.
The issue was hotly debated, with many parents still opting to take their children to the town of Shattuck due to the closer distance and more educational offerings. The local rivalry between "Tiger" and "Bearcat" residents still exists today.
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