Bryan Co., OK; Town of Cartwright - History 

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Submitted by the Bryan County Heritage Library 
Located in Calera, OK
Written by Lynda Stout Massey		 
Typed for the archives by Trudy Marlow 
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		CARTWRIGHT, THE TOWN A DAM BUILT

Cartwright is a town that a dam built. When work started on 
the Denison dam in 1939, a work camp was set up what was to be the 
north end of the dam. This area grew as workmen put up shanties and 
moved in trailers. Some permanent homes came in, but from the 
outset, the town flourished as a beer oasis. The town was named 
after Wilburn Cartwright, a former U.S. Congressman.

Cartwright is located on the Red River between Denison, Texas 
and Durant, Oklahoma, at the north end of the Denison dam on Lake 
Texoma and three and one half miles west of Colbert, Oklahoma. 

The first store in town was built by Carter and Webb. Then 
there was the Rind grcoery, the Harrison grocery, the Brown grocery 
and the Townsend grocery. Some of Cartwrights early residents were,
Massey, Holder, Hudgens, Siler, Tod, Reeves, Owens, Townsend, 
Carter, Mahan, Gardner, Trotter, Burks, Hartline, Renolds,
Sanders, Hattensty, Brown, Nichols, Thomas, Dalton, McEwin, Reese, 
Hargis, Rind.  These are only a few. 

Some people are under the misconception that Cartwright was 
formerly called Mulberry. This is not true. The town of Mulberry 
was innundated by Lake Texoma.
	
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Written by Lynda Stout Massey