Agawam, Oklahoma

Agawam is a ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma. Multiple abandoned houses remain in the town.

Geography

Agawam is located adjacent to US Highway 81, near the junction with County Road 1490.

Agawam was founded around 1909, when its post office was built. Agawam was named after a Native American village in New England. The community was located on the main line of the Rock Island Railroad.
On 19 October 1915, two Rock Island trains collided head-on here, a southbound passenger train and a northbound freight train, resulting in seven fatalities and numerous injuries; engineer William Powell was blamed for the accident.
The Agawam post office closed in 1918.
In October 1922, it was announced that Agawam would become a shipping point for a gas field in Grady County, due to its location: four miles from the Oklahoma Gas Company's pumping station, and on the Rock Island main line. Agawam was described as a "new oil town" in 1923, when an auction of town lots was held.
A gymnasium was completed in 1935. In 1955, Agawam had a grade school with a "small enrollment", but it was large enough to field a very good girls' basketball team that, over the course of three years, had amassed 90 wins against four losses, despite usually only having seven players.