WIRT

NAME: Wirt COUNTY: Carter ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Hot BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: Three miles west of Healdton.Stop by and see Donald and Claudia Duke at the feed store. REMAINS: Just the feed store , a few houses and the baptist church which is not operating now.

The town was first called Ragtown because of the tents workers lived in when the town started. It was an oil boom town and named for Wirt Franklin, the man that drilled the first well. A large number of Oil company camps housed a lot of families. The town burned a couple of times. At one time the town had a bank, movie,drug store,two gas stations, two churches,two gro. stores and a school called Dundee.When the oil dropped off so did the town. Submitted by: Bert Quick

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