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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.
Exterior of Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2013 Tulsa Convention Center renamed as Cox Business Center. Center of the Universe Festival (music fest) held. Woody Guthrie Center opens as museum and archive for the artist. Jim Bridenstine becomes U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district. [64]
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]
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 entire third floor will be devoted to the Sooner State's vast and diverse music history. ... Bob Willis memorabilia is pictured at the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture in Tulsa, Okla ...
Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha). [2]The fort was first built during the Indian Wars. [3]
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Bob Dylan Center opened to the public this week, throwing into focus a towering cultural figure and a city wrestling with its past. In Tulsa, the new Bob Dylan museum reconsiders ...
Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history.