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Shortly after the Turner Turnpike was built in 1953, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority proposed other toll roads including one to be built from Oklahoma City north to the Kansas border near Braman to tie in with the southern terminus of the Kansas Turnpike at the state line. That routing was included as part of the Federal Highway Act of 1956 ...
The Will Rogers Archway, originally named the Glass House Restaurant and still nicknamed "The Glass House", [1] [2] is a 29,135-square-foot (2,706.7 m 2) [3] service station that spans the Will Rogers Turnpike section of Interstate 44 (I-44) near Vinita, Oklahoma.
The Turner Turnpike is a controlled-access toll road in central Oklahoma, connecting its two largest cities, Oklahoma City and Tulsa.Authorized by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1947 and opened in May 1953, it is the oldest of the state's twelve turnpikes. [1]
January 20, 1999 (Tulsa: Tulsa: One of finest examples of ecclesiastical Art Deco architecture in the U.S. : 5: Camp Nichols: Camp Nichols: May 23, 1963 (Wheeless: Cimarron: Ruins of fort built by Kit Carson to protect the Cimarron Cutoff trail (Santa Fe Trail) followers from hostile Kiowa and Apache.
Located midway between Shawnee and Tecumseh, Benson Park served the recreational needs of Shawnee residents for about 20 years. It had a stop on the interurban streetcar that ran between the two towns to the park. Built by the railroad to encourage citizens to travel by rail it opened in 1907.
Midwest City is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,409, making it the eighth largest city in the state.
Arkansas Highway 68 is the former designation of U.S. Highway 412 from the Arkansas-Oklahoma State Line to U.S. Highway 62 at Alpena. The original eastern terminus of Highway 68 was 10 miles (16 km) east of Huntsville at Highway 21 , but was extended in the 1940s to Alpena.
From Anadarko, US 62 runs east through Verden to Chickasha and northeast through Blanchard and then Newcastle before returning to a concurrent route with I-44 into Oklahoma City and then with I-240 and I-35 through much of the city before leaving I-35 at Northeast 23rd Street (exit 130) two miles (3.2 km) east of the Oklahoma State Capitol.