Stringtown, Oklahoma while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother, Clyde Barrow and two associates were drinking alcohol at a dance in Stringtown (illegal under Prohibition). They were approached by Sheriff C. G. Maxwell and his deputy, at which time Clyde opened fire, killing deputy Eugene C. Moore. That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow Gang, a total which would eventually amount to nine slain officers. In the 1940s during World War II, Fritz Johann Hansgirg, the Austrian inventor of magnesium and heavy water processes was interned at the U.S. alien internment camp located
Barrow Point language novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture. Barrow Point language The Barrow Point language is a recently-extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time. Ethnologue (2005) classifies Barrow Point together with Guugu Yimidhirr as a branch of Pama–Nyungan, but this may be a geographical grouping from Dixon. Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point has at least two fricative phonemes, and . They usually developed from and , respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel,