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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 ]
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 First National Bank and Masonic Lodge is a historic building located in Fairfax, Oklahoma. The bank portion of the building was built in 1906. The lodge meeting hall portion was added by Greyhorse Lodge No. 124 in 1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
The biggest movie ever made in Oklahoma, "Killers of the Flower Moon" debuted in theaters worldwide Oct. 20, garnering $44 million globally in its opening weekend.
It was established in 1990 when the Fairfax and Ralston school districts merged. [5] In 2002 the Burbank school district dissolved, with a portion going to Woodland. [6] Beginning in the 2013–2014 school year, the district stopped sending certain data to the Oklahoma Department of Education and the United States Department of Education (ED). [7]
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.
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In Oklahoma, Tallchief was honored by the governor for both her ballet achievements and her pride in her American Indian heritage. The Legislature declared June 29, 1953, as "Maria Tallchief Day." [ 9 ] She stands among four other Indian ballerinas depicted in "Flight of Spirit," a mural in the Oklahoma Capitol building. [ 9 ]