Cache’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Cache. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCache is a city in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cache had a population of 2,930. It is an exurb included in the Lawton, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the location of Star House, the home of the Comanche chief Quanah Parker, the major leader of the Quahadi Comanche in the years of Indian Wars and transition to reservation life.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,796 to 2,930 (+5%). Half of its homes were built before 1986.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cache yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cache’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cache’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFuneral of Quanah Parker, Chief o…, 1911: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cache, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Funeral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at Post Oak Mission, near Cache, Okla. Feb. 24, 1911 (1911) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.