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1964 – Tulsa Convention Center opens. 1965 Oral Roberts University established. [49] Tulsa City-County Library Central Library opened. [50] 1966 Area of city expands. [24] Tulsa Expo Center built; Golden Driller statue permanently installed. [33] James M. Hewgley, Jr. becomes mayor. 1967 Prayer Tower and Fourth National Bank of Tulsa built.
Tulsa was the first major Oklahoma city to begin an urban renewal program. The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was formed in July, 1959. Its first project, the Seminole Hills Project, a public housing facility was begun in 1961 and completed in 1968. [37] The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was renamed the Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) in 1976.
Route 66 and Associated Resources in Oklahoma AD MPS: 22: City Veterinary Hospital: City Veterinary Hospital: August 26, 2008 : 3550 S. Peoria Ave. Tulsa: Moderne-style work of Hungarian-American architect Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. 23
The 1908 building became surplus property. For historical purposes, the Tulsa Board returned the old building to the community of Dawson. The retired school building became a community activity center for Dawson, a town named in honor of its first postmaster W.A. Dawson, [4] and was the only public building until a firehouse was constructed in ...
Daniel, who was in his 20s, was among those killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre, his family says.. More than 100 years later, the city of Tulsa honored Daniel at a memorial service last week after ...
The Creek Council Oak Tree is a historic landmark which represents the founding of the modern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States by the Lochapoka [1] Tribal Town of the Creek Nation. The Creeks had been forced to leave their homeland in the southeastern United States [ a ] and travel to land across the Mississippi River, where the U.S ...
Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history.
Camp Henry McCulloch was located at "Nuner's Mott", about four miles north of the present city limits of Victoria in Victoria County. It was the training site in the fall of 1861 for several infantry and cavalry companies of the 6th Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA (at the time when McCulloch was interim commander of the Department of Texas).