The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Horace W. Webb, a native of Missouri, settled just south of Grainola, Oklahoma in 1910. He continued to purchase land and opened the area's first school. The town of Webb City was incorporated on his land in September 1921. The post office opened in Webb City on December 16, 1922.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Webb’s history is told.
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Webb, decade by decade
Before
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Webb is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Webb has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Bank of Burbank in Burbank, 7.7 miles away.
Webb and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Bank of Burbank’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Webb?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Webb’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.