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McClain County is a county located in south central Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,662. [1] Its county seat is Purcell. [2] The county was named for Charles M. McClain, an Oklahoma constitutional convention attendee.
Purcell is a city in and the county seat of McClain County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 6,651, a 13% increase from 2010. [6] [7] Founded in 1887, Purcell was a railroad town named after Edward B. Purcell, who was an official with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ("AT&SF"). [8]
Purcell was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire (now Merseyside), England. He is the son of Phil Myrtvedt and Maureen (née Clarke) Purcell. His mother was Irish and his father was English of Norwegian descent. In 1972, he and his family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, initially living in Bondi before settling in Penrith. [7]
Henry Purcell (/ ˈ p ɜːr s əl /, rare: / p ər ˈ s ɛ l /; [n 1] c. 10 September 1659 [n 2] – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
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A court dispute followed over whether the sale included citizenship rights for the Delaware within the Cherokee Nation. In 1867, the courts ruled that they had only purchased rights to the land for their lifetimes. The Curtis Act of 1898 dissolved tribal governments and ordered the allotment of tribal lands to individual members of tribes. The ...
Hotel Love, at 200 W. Main St. in Purcell, Oklahoma, was built in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1] It has Italianate style ...
Purcell is located between the Spring River and the North Fork Spring River approximately eight miles northwest of Carthage. Alba is one mile to the east on Missouri Route D and Neck City is one mile to the northwest. [7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.44 square miles (1.14 km 2), all land. [8]