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The Oil Capital Historic District (OCHD) is an area in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma that commemorates the success of the oil business in Tulsa during the early 20th century. During this period, Tulsa was widely known as "The Oil Capital of the World." The area is bounded by 3rd Street on the north and 7th Street on the south, Cincinnati Avenue on ...
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]
The track features live horse races Thursday through Sunday from early June to late July at its facility at Expo Square Pavilion in the Tulsa State Fairgrounds. While the Expo Square is known for the annual Chili Bowl Midget Nationals & Tulsa Shootout races in the Expo Center, the Fair Meadows Race Track has hosted some motorsports events as well.
In the later 19th century, before oil was discovered in Texas, Oklahoma, or the Middle East, Cleveland, Ohio had a claim to the title, [6] with 86 [7] or 88 [8] refineries operating in the city in 1884. Tulsa claimed the name early in the 20th century, after oil strikes at Red Fork (1901) and Glenpool (1905) in Tulsa County.
In a photo provided by the city of Tulsa, a monument to honor people found or exhumed during a probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre stands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, November 12. (City of ...
Tulsa (/ ˈ t ʌ l s ə / TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 – also known as the 1921 Race Riot, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot – was one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence and large-scale civil disorder. From May 31 to June 1, 1921 during 16 hours of rioting by whites, more than 39 people were officially reported killed (although unofficial ...
Hallett Motor Racing Circuit is a road course about 35-mile (56 km) west of Tulsa in the Green Country of Oklahoma. The track has 10 turns in 1.800 mi (2.897 km), and over 80 ft (24 m) of elevation change. [2] The track can also be configured to run both clockwise and counter-clockwise, yielding two distinct race courses.