Louis and Virginia Masterson

In this 1976 interview, Louis Edward Masterson (1903-2000) and wife Virginia (Bruce) Masterson (1909-2002) discuss the early settlement of the Pinehill community in Creek County, Oklahoma including the crops and livestock that were raised by farming families, daily life, school life, social life including town parties and socials, the establishment of the Pinehill School, early oil well drilling in the area, the construction of the Heyburn Lake dam and its impact on the local families as their land was seized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its construction.

1976-10-02

Robert L. “Bob” McCarty

Louis Edward Masterson

Virginia (Bruce) Masterson

Pinehill

school

fairs

community

crops

livestock

Heyburn Lake