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Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma. It has many diverse neighborhoods due to its size. Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, Highway 64, and Highway 75. The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district, and is the ...
The City of Tulsa manages 135 parks spread over 8,278 acres (3,350 ha). [1] This includes 2 nature centers, 6 community centers with fitness facilities, gymnasiums and meeting rooms, 2 skate parks, 2 dog parks, 4 swimming pools, 66 miles of walking trails, 186 sports fields, 93 playgrounds, 111 tennis courts, 13 water playgrounds, 17 splash pads, 61 picnic shelters, 4 golf courses and 8 disc ...
Owen Park is a residential neighborhood and historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its borders are Edison Avenue on the north, the municipal Owen Park on the east, the Keystone Expressway (Hwy 412) on the south, and Zenith Avenue on the west. Opened on June 8, 1910, it was Tulsa's first municipal park. [ 1 ]
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947 ...
Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area. Coordinates: 36°04′23″N 95°59′41″W. Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area is an approximately 738-acre (299 ha) wilderness park in Tulsa in the US state of Oklahoma. It is managed by the Tulsa River Parks Authority and open to the public. The main entrance is at 67th Street and Elwood Avenue in ...
History of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-most populous city in the United States. Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname " Oil Capital of the World " and played a major role as one ...
Greenwood District, Tulsa. Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a ...
By 1960, it seemed that the tree and its surroundings would be destroyed to create a parking lot. Instead, the Creek Nation and several individuals bought the site, which they donated to the City of Tulsa. The city turned the 1.86 acres (0.75 ha) plot into Creek Nation Council Oak Park. [2] Richard Thornton was named as the architect for the ...