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The Land Run of 1891 was a set of horse races to settle land acquired by the federal government through the opening of several small Indian reservations in Oklahoma Territory. The race involved approximately 20,000 homesteaders, who gathered to stake their claims on 6,097 plots, of 160 acres (0.65 km 2) each, of former reservation land. [1]
Location of Oklahoma County in Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a ...
The McLemore Site is located on a terrace overlooking Cobb Creek outside the town of Colony in central western Oklahoma. The first major archaeological investigation took place in 1960 under the auspices of Dr. Robert E. Bell of Oklahoma State University. Three sections of the site were excavated: an area of cache and refuse pits, an area once ...
The Centennial Land Run Monument is an art installation by Paul Moore, located in the Oklahoma City Bricktown District, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [1] It commemorates the Land Run of 1889 in the Unassigned Lands .
Tahlequah, Oklahoma: 1844 Government Tribal Supreme Court building, possibly the oldest building completed in OK Murrell Home: Park Hill, Oklahoma: 1844 House Historic plantation house Barracks at Fort Gibson: Fort Gibson, Oklahoma: 1844-1867 Fort [1] [2] Judge Franklin Faulkner House: Sallisaw, Oklahoma: 1845 House Wheelock Church: Millerton ...
The Sam Noble Museum has received a number of national and international awards, including the national award for Collection Stewardship and Heritage Preservation in 2004; the National Medal for Museums from the Institute of Museums and Library Services in 2014, the highest award from the U.S. government for a museum for being an institution that makes a difference for individuals, families ...
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).
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Oklahoma, in the United States