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ShawneeOK.org. Shawnee (Meskwaki: Shânîheki[4]) is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 29,857 in 2010, a 4.9 percent increase from the figure of 28,692 in 2000. [6] The city is part of the Oklahoma City -Shawnee Combined Statistical Area and the principal city of the Shawnee ...
Location of Pottawatomie County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Aloysius Larch-Miller (1886–1920, also known as Aloysius Larchmiller) was a suffragette and women's rights advocate from Oklahoma. She was most known for a debate speech made days before her death which resulted in passage of a proposal to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. She was posthumously inducted into the inaugural group of women honored ...
Sacred Heart is a small unincorporated community in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. Established in 1879 by Father Isidore Robot as a Catholic mission on the old Pottawatomie reserve, it was originally named Sacred Heart Mission. The name was changed to Sacred Heart in 1888, shortly before the area was opened to settlement by non ...
pottawatomiecountyok.com. Pottawatomie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,454. [1] Its county seat is Shawnee. [2] Pottawatomie County is part of the Shawnee, OK micropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Oklahoma City –Shawnee, OK combined statistical area.
Oklahoma runestones. A number of runestones have been found in Oklahoma. All of them are of modern origin dating to the 19th century "Viking revival" or were produced by 19th-century Scandinavian settlers. The oldest find is the "Heavener Runestone," first documented in 1923. It is a 19th-century artifact made by a Scandinavian immigrant ...
The Shawnee Friends Mission is a historic Quaker mission and meeting house south of Shawnee, Oklahoma. It was built around 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1] Mission work by the Society of Friends began around 1871. The Friends Meeting House, built was built around 1880 and survives in good condition in 1972.
After a disastrous fire in 1901 that destroyed the school and the monastery, the monks accepted an offer from the town of Shawnee and began construction of the Catholic University of Oklahoma and St. Gregory's Abbey in 1910. The school opened its doors in 1915, and in 1922 the name was changed to St. Gregory's College. The monks jointly ...