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Oil discovered at Glenn Pool near Tulsa. [15] First two public schools built. [16] 1906 Tulsa Hospital opens (would close after WWI). [17] Trolley begins operating. [18] Tulsa High School built. [16] Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, now named OneOK, founded. Downtown Tulsa, looking east on 2nd Street from Main Street, 1908. 1907
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.
Tulsa, Oklahoma – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [71] Pop 2010 [72] Pop 2020 [73] % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
Survivors search through the rubble of the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 1921. As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed and their homes and businesses were destroyed by white residents, in what ...
Timeline of Tulsa, Oklahoma; 0–9. 2015 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament; 2017 Tulsa tornadoes; 2020 Tulsa Trump rally; 2022 Tulsa hospital shooting; A. Alsuma ...
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 ...
In 1906, Gurley moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he purchased 40 acres (16 ha) of land which was "only to be sold to colored". [11] Among Gurley's first businesses was a rooming house which was located on a dusty trail near the railroad tracks. This road was given the name Greenwood Avenue, named for a city in Mississippi. The area became very ...
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.