Bickford, Oklahoma

Bickford is a ghost town in Blaine County, Oklahoma, United States.

The town was located two miles north of Watonga Lake.

[1] Bickford was a company-made town, located in the Roman Nose Canyon.

The canyons walls were topped with thick layers of gypsum that could make things such as cement, plaster, and drywall.

In Bickford, the Roman Nose Gypsum Company built a large mill, commissaries, several homes, a hotel for employees, pipelines for water, and other items for inhabitants.