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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1KF6_run-of-89-east-boundary_Luther-OK.html
At the opening of "Old Oklahoma" April 22, 1889, this was the East Line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, west, were peopled by tens of thousands, homes were planted and tent cities sprang up before nig…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1KF8_washington-irvings-camp_Arcadia-OK.html
Near here, 1832, Washington Irving hunted wild horses, an exciting event described in his book on his Oklahoma tour as "Ringing the Wild Horse." In party were H. L. Ellsworth, U.S. Comm., Chas. J. Latrobe, English writer, and Swiss County, Albert de Portales.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1KFI_oil-in-the-osage-indian-nation-and-the-million-dollar-elm_Pawhuska-OK.html
Symbolic of the impact oil had on the people of the Osage Indian Nation is the so-called "Million Dollar Elm." It was given this name because in its shade millions of dollars worth of Osage oil leases were auctioned. It was planted at this site sometime dur…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM220Q_chief-stumbling-bear-pass_Lawton-OK.html
Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1867, founded the first permanent settlement on Canyon Creek, southwest of here. First Government-built houses for Indians were erected in the settlement, 1877.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM23TE_international-petroleum-exposition_Tulsa-OK.html
The International Petroleum Exposition was founded at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1923 providing a display to the world of the latest in equipment, operational ideas and practices used in the petroleum and related industries.
When the first exposition was held it …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM23TT_booker-t-washington-high-school_Tulsa-OK.html
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Constructed on this site in 1913, Booker T. Washington High School served as the separate school for Black students in Tulsa.
The first building was a four-room wooden frame structure. A sixteen-room brick facility with a basement replaced the ori…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM25FN_california-road_Crawford-OK.html
California Road, crossed here. First traveled by gold seekers in Rush for California spring 1849, under military escort commanded by Captain R.B. Marcy, west from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Antelope Hills, 8 miles northwest, once landmark for international line …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28V1_camp-radziminski_Mountain-Park-OK.html
Established Sept., 1858, by four troops of crack 2nd Cav., under Major Earl Van Dorn. Named in memory of Lt. Charles Radziminski, a former member of the Regt. E. Kirby Smith, Cornelius Van Camp, Fitzhugh Lee, W. B. Royall all served there. Permanent type bu…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28WH_canute_Canute-OK.html
Early inhabitants of the area were plains Indians who followed and hunted the roaming herds of buffalo that grazed the rich grasslands of this area. evidence of several Indian encampments have been located on Trail Elk, Turkey and Oak Creeks as well as Indi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28WJ_walters-oklahoma_Walters-OK.html
At the opening of Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands, the original townsite in old Comanche County was SW 1/4, T2S, R11W. The original name McKnight was rejected by the post office. The name Walter, for City Commissioner W.R. Walter, was then chosen Sept. 1901. Th…