In the 1950s, salty Estelline Spring at the Prairie Dog Town Fork released 300 tons of the mineral daily into the Red River.

Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

The "Willis Bridge" now connects Oklahoma to Texas over Lake Texoma along US 377.

Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.