Here is more that I remember about Russett, OK. By the time we moved there in about 1974 the old school was nothing but rubble inside. The gymnasium was and is still standing and being used for storage. As a kid I used to go dig around in the bricks at the school and find old school books.... the books had just been piled up and rained on for years. It was as if they had melted. A few times I dug through the cocoon of paper and found some books still intact though I have since lost track of them. There were a few abandoned school buses around there, too that we used to play in. There was a house right next to the school...that house was completely gutted and very scary to walk in because the floor boards were rotten. Our favorite house to play in was the two story one with the storm shelter, near the church. That was the closest storm shelter for us too so every spring we would have to rush to that shelter in the night and fight our way through cobwebs and creepy stuff to the (often water filled) shelter. Once in high school a group of us girls spent the night in that house and told scary stories all night. It was fun. That house burned down sometime during the last 5 years. I have some pictures of it though. While we lived there, my father was the foreman for Bill Chapman who owned all of the land around Russett. His house was directly across the road from the school gym. His house had an old gas pump in front of it...I'm not sure if it originally stood there. Our house was across the main street from the school. I could see the school from my front porch. I loved that little town and always wondered about its history even back when I was a little kid. I would love to know more. As I dig out pictures etc.. I will start a web page just for little ole Russett. :) Let me know if you would like to contribute or if you have any old pictures from the area around Russett and Pettyjohn Springs Road. Paula http://www.stoutgenealogy.com/