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Lake Hefner is a reservoir in northwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.It was built in the 1940s to expand the water supply for the city of Oklahoma City, [2]. It is named after Robert A. Hefner, who served as mayor of Oklahoma City from April 11, 1939, to April 8, 1947, but was originally named the "Bluff Creek Reservoir."
Robert Alexander Hefner ("The Judge"), born in Hunt County, Texas, to William Lafayette Hefner and Sarah Jane Masters Hefner, was a lawyer-turned-politician. He served as mayor of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and of Oklahoma City, and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Hefner was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1949. [1]
Texas Texas Ranger; Ranch Manager Ben C. Ash: 1851–1946 1959 South Dakota Frontiersman; Peace Officer Stephen Fuller Austin: 1793–1836 1958 Texas Colonizer; Secretary of the Republic of Texas; Rancher Gene Autry: 1907–1998 1980 Texas/Oklahoma Entertainer William Hugh Baber: 1893–1968 1971 California Livestock and Farming Charles Monroe Bair
The Antelope Creek Phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas Panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from AD 1200 to 1450. [1] The two most important areas where the Antelope Creek people lived were in the Canadian River valley centered on present-day Lake Meredith near the city of Borger, Texas and the Buried City complex in Wolf Creek valley near the town of Perryton, Texas.
On the banks of the Oklahoma River, the new First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City aims to tell the story of the state’s 39 tribes through creation stories, tales of struggle and accounts of ...
David Hall (1930–2016), former governor of the state of Oklahoma; Linda Hughes O'Leary (born 1950), former member of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council (2003–2007) James Inhofe (1934–2024), U.S. Senator; James R. Jones (born 1939), former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, chairman of the American Stock Exchange
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconsider the case they dismissed last month ...
A federal judge granted a motion Friday to temporarily stop Oklahoma from enforcing its new anti-immigration law that would make it a crime to live in the state without legal immigration status. U ...