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The Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum is located in the Electric Park Pavilion and displays artifacts from the land run, antiques, and local history. [34] [35] Blackwell hosts the Kay County Free Fair in September. Blackwell is served by 5 major parks including Riverside, Bagby, Rogers, Memorial, and Legion parks.
A.J. Blackwell (Andrew Jackson Blackwell) (January 29, 1842 - June 19, 1903) was the founder and namesake of Blackwell, Kay County, Oklahoma. Blackwell, the city, was founded in September 1893 as of one of the Cherokee Allotments . [ 1 ]
The 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the southern and central U.S Great Plains States on May 25–26, 1955. It produced at least 48 tornadoes across seven states including two F5 tornadoes in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Udall, Kansas that caused most of the casualties.
Location of Kay County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kay County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
The Blackwell gunfight occurred on the morning of December 4, 1896, when a posse of American lawmen confronted two bandits at their hideout near Blackwell, Oklahoma.During a lengthy shootout that followed, Deputy Alfred O. Lund killed an outlaw named Dick Ainsley while the other outlaw, Ben Cravens, was badly wounded and captured.
The Electric Park Pavilion is a pavilion located in Blackwell, Oklahoma, designed in 1912 by W.L. McAltee. [2] The pavilion was built as a "salute to electricity" and features a 160-foot domed ceiling, and an 800-seat auditorium. [3]
The line was built in sections, starting from Blackwell, Oklahoma to Darrow, Oklahoma (84.3 mi.) in 1900–01. Then from Darrow to the Red River (154.3 mi) in 1901–03. [ 3 ] On July 20, 1907, the railroad was purchased by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (the "Frisco"), who operated it until November 21, 1980, when the Frisco was acquired ...
Dilworth was founded about November 1916, in a booming oil field variously known as the Blackwell field or the Dilworth field. [5] [6] [7] In that same year, the Oil Fields Short Line Railroad was completed into Dilworth from a connection point called Clifford off the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.