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Title page and overview of proposed reroute of Highway 66 through Bethany. In 1955, Route 66 was needing to be recreated to bypass Lake Overholser in Bethany when it became clear that the Overholser Bridge could no longer handle the amount of traffic…

This map shows the zoning within the City of Bethany, Oklahoma for November 1958.

This was an advertisement from the 1920 Bethanian, a yearbook from what was then called Oklahoma Nazarene College. Oklahoma Nazarene College eventually became Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. The advertisement mentions a new General…

2002 Yearbook from Southern Nazarene University

2003 Yearbook from Southern Nazarene University

1999 Yearbook from Southern Nazarene University

2011 Yearbook from Southern Nazarene University

SNU Yearbook from 2001

Newspaper Article from the Oklahoma City Times talking about the rerouting of Route 66 along 39th Expressway in Bethany. Also, a newspaper article about the building of Chapman Dorms of the campus of Bethany Nazarene College.

This photo was taken from the old Bethany Water Tower on 36th and Wilburn.