Randol Hotel

Historical marker location:

209 West Main Street, Ardmore, Oklahoma

( Marker is on West Main Street (Oklahoma Route 199) west of B Street NW, on the right when traveling west.)

Jake Hamon was shot in the Randol Hotel where huge oil deals were consummated. The hotel burned in 1925.

During the Great Depression, thousands of farmers in Oklahoma were displaced from their land due to drought and dust storms. Many of these farmers migrated to California in search of work, a journey that became known as the "Okie migration."