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Location of Tulsa County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Oaklawn Cemetery is a cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. To the north of the cemetery is 8th street, to the east is Peoria Avenue, to the south is 11th Street and to the west is highway 75. To the north of the cemetery is 8th street, to the east is Peoria Avenue, to the south is 11th Street and to the west is highway 75.
Perryman Cemetery is a cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma and considered Tulsa's oldest private cemetery. It is located on the 1849 cattle ranch of Lewis Perryman and his son, George Perryman. There are approximately fifty graves dating from 1879 to 1941. [1] It was deeded to the Tulsa Historical Society in 1987 by Mary and Newman Perryman. [2] [3]
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]
Old Gray Cemetery is the second-oldest cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.Established in 1850, the 13.47-acre (5.45 ha) cemetery contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most influential citizens, ranging from politicians and soldiers, to artists and activists.
The Creek Council Oak Tree is a historic landmark which represents the founding of the modern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States by the Lochapoka [1] Tribal Town of the Creek Nation. The Creeks had been forced to leave their homeland in the southeastern United States [ a ] and travel to land across the Mississippi River, where the U.S ...
The Tulsa Theater (formerly known as the Brady Theater, Tulsa Municipal Theater, and Tulsa Convention Hall [4]) is a theater and convention hall located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was originally completed in 1914 and remodeled in 1930 and 1952. The building was used as a detention center during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. [5]
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.