Dewey Portland Cement Company

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 08:46
Wild Oklahoma
Dale Lewis, Examiner-Enterprise

It was 1905 when Herbert Tyler and his son Donald rode the train to the Indian territory of northeastern Oklahoma looking for a site where they could build a cement plant. At the time, they needed a source of natural gas for their plant was well as large amounts of limestone and shale or clay. All of these things were plentiful in Washington County and they found just what they needed a mile north of the small community of Dewey. …

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