1951 Map of Britton

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Lake Hefner dominates the western half of this landscape, its underwater contours and docks recorded alongside the growing suburban expansion of northern Oklahoma City. The early 1950s environment is captured here as a transition from rural land—dotted with oil wells and the oil refinery in the northeast—to established residential communities like The Village and Nichols Hills. Important local landmarks of the era include the Wiley Post Airport and the sprawling grounds of the Oklahoma City Country Club.