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Joe Reed First Car Up Mt Scott Site in 1935 Landmark Journey
Joe Reed drove the first car to the Mt Scott summit on Sunday September 15 1935 a trip noted in The Daily Oklahoman as the start of a famed three mile road opened as a WPA project later rebuilt and opened to the public in 1938. Reed a World War I airman pioneer and long time Lawton postmaster remains active at 85.
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Awton
Joe Reed
Mt. Scott
Elmer Thomas
Jed Johnson
Joe
Daily
Oklahoman
New Mountain Road
Lawton Constitution
Reed
Ned Shepler
The
Myron Groseclose
Ray Keegan
Lawton
R. G. Miller
Daily Oklahoman
WPA
Floyd J. Freeman
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Scott
Chamber of Commerce
Bertha
Lowton
T. R. Keegan
Cory