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Fairfax is a town in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The Osage Nation reservation is coterminous with the county. The Osage Nation reservation is coterminous with the county. The population was 1,380 at the 2010 census , down 11.3 percent from the figure of 1,555 recorded in 2000 . [ 4 ]
The Osage Bank of Fairfax was the first bank building built in Osage County. It was built in 1904, at the time of the Oklahoma oil boom. It is one of four small bank buildings built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in Osage County, Oklahoma during 1904–1911. [2] The others are Bank of Hominy, Bank of Burbank, and Bank of Bigheart.
A fourth-generation Fairfax resident, Daniels said she remembers when it was still a bustling town, although perhaps not as rowdy as the boomtown depicted in "Killers of the Flower Moon." "I went ...
Osage County is the setting of Oklahoma native Tracy Letts's play August: Osage County (2007), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award in 2008, and the 2013 movie adaptation of the same name which stars Meryl Streep. Filming took place in rural Osage County, including Pawhuska, Barnsdall and Bartlesville.
The production was filmed in Pawhuska, Fairfax, and Bartlesville. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' was filmed in Oklahoma, where the real Osage murders took place. The production was filmed in ...
The town of Fairfax, Oklahoma was recreated in nearby Pawhuska by redressing and refitting period buildings back to their former self. - Courtesy Apple Original Films.
Gray Horse and the surrounding towns of Fairfax and Pawhuska feature prominently in the Osage Murders, which took place in the early 1920s. The towns had grown exceedingly wealthy due to the discovery and drilling of nearby oil fields, and the resident Osage tribe members began to live lifestyles that befitted their newly acquired economic status.
The Oklahoma tourism department and Osage Nation are encouraging tourists to be courteous and responsible when they visit Osage Country.