The Oklahoma Bottle and Glass Company manufactured fruit jars. Because of the abundance of natural gas for fuel, the Blackwell Zinc Company, a smelter plant, opened in 1917. It employed approximately eight hundred in 1972 and was one of the …

The Blackwell Times first appeared on November 1, 1893. D. D. W. and M. E. Walker served as editors, and the motto for their paper was, “Republican in Principle; But Devoted to the Upbuilding of Blackwell and the Development of County K.”

In 1899 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built their line from Kansas into present Kay County, and the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) reached Blackwell.

Photograph of the day the H&S Railroad entered Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. Photo by William S Prettyman, Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory, February 28, 1898.

Explore details about Blackwell Journal-Tribune (Blackwell, Oklahoma) 1942-current in The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

Oklahoma Historical Society Photograph Collection These photographs document individual portraits, street scenes, and pictures of landmarks and buildings taken between 1890 and 1920 across the state of Oklahoma.

Photograph of an aerial view of a Zinc Smelter Plant, Blackwell, OK. Photo by Morton Harvey, Ponca City, OK. Printed by Graycraft Card Co., Danville, VA.

Photograph of laborers with shovels at the starting of a diversion dam on the Chikaskia River near Blackwell, Oklahoma. This project is for a water supply for the City of Blackwell.

Weekly newspaper from Blackwell, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Blackwell, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.