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Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Oklahoma that are designated on the National Register of Historic Places. Listings are distributed across all of Oklahoma's 77 counties . The following are approximate unofficial tallies of current listings by county.
Oklahoma City Discovery Well: December 9, 1977 : SE. 57th St. and ITIO Boulevard: Oklahoma City: 106: Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant: Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant: September 10, 2014
Flag of Oklahoma. The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
A typical frontier town, Navajoe had its share of gunfights and outlaw activity. In 1891, a Kiowa uprising, resulting from the killing of one of their chiefs by a cowhand in an argument over beeves, caused area families to seek refuge in the town and a detachment to be dispatched from Fort Sill. [1] [7] [8]
Library of University of Oklahoma, focus of racial segregation Supreme Court case. 3: Boley Historic District: Boley Historic District: May 15, 1975 : Boley: Okfuskee: All-black town founded in 1903, product of segregationist policies. 4
Populated places (including cities, towns and villages) established (i.e., first settled or otherwise came into existence) in the 1800s. This category is for Populated places established in the 1800s .
Fort Gibson is a historic military site next to the modern city of Fort Gibson, in Muskogee County Oklahoma. It guarded the American frontier in Indian Territory from 1824 to 1888. When it was constructed, the fort was farther west than any other military post in the United States.