Volume 7 , Issue 40

Brink & Mirabile In NW Oklahoma...

What we learned last week about Brink & Mirabile, Oklahoma. Bob tells us that Brink was located two miles north, and two miles east of Alva, Oklahoma. As you cross the railroad tracks, a sign south a few yards says, "Brink." We are told that it has been there for a century. Brink has never been a community, store or town. Yet it is on some maps showing it as such. Some guess that at one time it was a railroad marker.

Others also state that Brink was only a community, never a town. It was and still is a railroad siding 4 miles south of Capron, Oklahoma. One of our readers owns land just across the road east of the Charley Paya place. We are told that the railrod runs through the Morefield place.

We also found out last week that the location of Mirabile was north of Alva, a mile south of the correction line. It was only a country school. We don't know when they quit having school there. The bus brought the children to the Capron School. Bus Rader drove the bus, then later drove the bus to Alva after the Capron School closed in 1976. The Mirabile School was also the United Brethern Church.

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