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Tulsa was the first major Oklahoma city to begin an urban renewal program. The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was formed in July, 1959. Its first project, the Seminole Hills Project, a public housing facility was begun in 1961 and completed in 1968. [37] The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was renamed the Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) in 1976.
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, now named OneOK, founded. Downtown Tulsa, looking east on 2nd Street from Main Street, 1908. 1907 Tulsa becomes part of the new U.S. state of Oklahoma, and county seat of newly formed Tulsa County. Henry Kendall College moved from Muskogee to Tulsa. [4] Population: 7,298. [4] 1908 Commission form of government ...
Tulsa also has a Tulsa branch of Langston University, the only historically black college or university in the state, founded in 1897. Tulsa previously had a branch campus of St. Gregory's University, a Catholic university with its main campus in Shawnee, Oklahoma; however, that school went into bankruptcy in 2017.
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is the oldest and largest of nine national wildlife refuges in the state [16] and was founded in 1901, encompassing 59,020 acres (238.8 km 2). [17] Of Oklahoma's federally protected park or recreational sites, the Chickasaw National Recreation Area is the largest, with 4,500 acres (18 km 2). [18]
Tulsa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census , the population was 669,279, [ 1 ] making it the second-most populous county in the state, behind only Oklahoma County .
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 382,872 in 2006, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area , a region of 897,752 residents projected to reach one million between 2010 and 2012.
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [25] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [26] [27] massacre [28] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [29] attacked ...
The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, [1] until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma.