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Old Mountain View Townsite

Washita County
Location: on OK-115, 1 1/2 miles north of Mountain View
Coordinates: 35.119820, -98.740802
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Mountain View Twentieth Century Club
Topics: Government; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Urban Development

Because of an error in the original survey, Mountain View was established in Washita County in 1899. When the error was discovered in 1903, the town was moved two miles southwest into Kiowa County because the legal proceedings to approve the first site were invalid.

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