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Pontotoc County: World War I: 3 Tenant farmers vs. Local authorities [39] Tulsa Race Massacre: May 31 – June 1, 1921 Tulsa County: 39 White citizens vs. Black citizens [40] Red River Bridge War: July 3 - September 7, 1931 Bryan County, Oklahoma and Grayson County, Texas: 0 Oklahoma Army National Guard vs. Texas Ranger Division [41] [42]
The citizens of Goliad County donated the 14-acre battleground to the State of Texas around 1913. The state originally named it Fannin State Park. [ 3 ] The site is currently operated by the Texas Historical Commission and features a stone obelisk, interpretive exhibit, group pavilion, and picnic area.
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía , a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad .
There are one National Historic Landmark, five districts, and seven other individually listed properties on the National Register in the county. Among these, either among individual properties or contained within districts, are two State Historic Sites , four State Antiquities Landmarks , and numerous Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks .
View of mines, plant, rail yard in Cardin, Oklahoma (1922) An unusual cluster of galena crystals from the Tri-State district. The gold-colored mineral is chalcopyrite. Size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm. The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The ...
Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters jammed the streets in April 1971 in Washington, D.C., and as the demonstration against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War heightened, more than 7,000 ...
The site is located about 150 miles (241 km) west of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, near Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Just before dawn on November 27, 1868, the village was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Custer. In the Battle of Washita, the Cheyenne suffered large numbers of casualties. The strike was hailed at the time by the ...
The civilian settlement, later named Goliad, sprang up around the presidio in the late 18th century; the area was one of the three most important in Spanish Texas. The presidio was captured by insurgents twice during the Mexican War of Independence, by the Republican Army of the North in 1813 and by the Long Expedition in 1821. Each time the ...