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Published September 05, 2009 11:34 pm - QUAPAW, Okla. — Carol McGowen wiped away bittersweet tears Saturday as she and her family members walked through Quapaw’s newest subdivision, now home to 19 homes removed from the former mining communities they once called home. Kansas City developers William Worley and Tom Cason, owners of Cane River Development, presented Bluestem subdivision to the public Saturday in a six-hour open house that brought a stream of curious area residents and potential home buyers. Transplanted houses presented to public in Quapaw By Krista Duhon
news@joplinglobe.com QUAPAW, Okla. — Carol McGowen wiped away bittersweet tears Saturday as she and her family members walked through Quapaw’s newest subdivision, now home to 19 homes removed from the former mining communities they once called home. Kansas City developers William Worley and Tom Cason, owners of Cane River Development, presented Bluestem subdivision to the public Saturday in a six-hour open house that brought a stream of curious area residents and potential home buyers. “They did a wonderful job,” McGowen said. McGowen’s father, Ed Selle, was equally impressed by the efforts to refurbish homes salvaged from the communities of Picher, Cardin and Hockerville. The former lead and zinc mining communities are the focus of a federally funded effort to relocate residents living in undermined areas determined to be unsafe. “If we had not already purchased a home, we would have bought one of these homes,” Selle said. “We came today just to see what they have done here. They have done a bang-up job.” Standing in front of a blue-sided ranch-style home in the middle of a grouping of about a dozen homes, Selle pointed to a brown home with fresh sod and a $119,000 price tag on the front door. “That was my wife’s niece’s home,” Selle said. “And that little white house two doors down belonged to good friends of ours, France and Kathryn Crocket. They built that house.” Pointing in another direction, Selle noted a cinderblock footprint of a small home. “That is where they brought in my sister’s house,” Selle said. “But, they said it ended up being not as stable as they thought, so they tore it down and left the foundation.” Selle, born 81 years ago in Picher, said he and his wife, Marcella, have always managed to find their way back to Picher. “It will always be home,” Selle said, noting that it was nice to see that a semblance of the community had been reassembled. “They have done a good thing.” Four of the largest homes from the Picher area flank the entrance to Bluestem subdivision, which sits along South 620 Road in Ottawa County. A trio of small home foundations are mixed among 16 additional homes that are now move-in ready. New construction will be designed to fit the three cinder-block foundation sites where developers decided the most cost-effective remedy for renovation was to demolish the home and build on the foundation. As of July, city water and sewer lines were in place, according to developers, who said the city of Quapaw welcomed them with open arms and considers the new subdivision to be a fresh breath for the rural Oklahoma town. 
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