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Constitutional Convention, 1907 (3832.A, Frederick S. Barde Collection, OHS).

#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory

Every time a headquarters moves, the panic starts.

But Oklahoma City has never been a one-company town.

Kerr-McGee. Halliburton. Sinclair. Chesapeake.

Companies leave. Cities stay.

Link in thread.

#OklahomaCity #OklahomaHistory #UrbanHistory #EconomicHistory #EnergyIndustry #RootsAndMainStreet

Elmer McCurdy Seems some villains just chose the wrong career

📣 New Podcast! "Elmer McCurdy" on @Spreaker #americanfolklore #americanoutlaw #carnivalsideshow #crimeandpunishment #culturalcuriosities #elmerjmccurdy #fascinatinghistory #historicalfigures #longbeachcalifornia #losthistory #mummifiedbody #murdermystery #oklahomahistory #sideshowattractions

Not all public servants lead with heart—but George Nigh did.

His legacy isn’t just about policy. It’s about people.
🕊️ Rest well, Governor.

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#oklahoma #oklahomagovernor #georgenigh #oklahomapolitics #oklahomahistory #okleg #okpolicy

Fort Towson Historic Site in SE Oklahoma tells the story of the fort that was vital to the westward expansion of the United States from 1824 until it closed in 1854.
#SEOklahoma #OklahomaHistory

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Street scene in Clinton, Oklahoma on July 28, 1909

(22165.15, Oklahoma Historical Society Photograph Collection)
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Main Street in Cheyenne, Oklahoma Territory, in 1899

(2630, W. P. Campbell Collection, OHS) #OklahomaTerritory #OklahomaHistory

Water tower. Jay Oklahoma. Town formed 1908. WPA funded construction of this tower in the 1930's. New city utility no longer uses it.
#cityofjay #jayok #photography #oklahoma #cherokeenation #summer2025 #chahtaphotographer #smalltownlife #landscapephotography #OklahomaHistory

#OnThisDay Legendary Oklahoma football coach Bennie Owen was born in 1875. He was the head football coach from 1905-1926. He also coached basketball and baseball. OU's Owen Field is named in his honor. #OklahomaHistory #OklahomaSooners

Looking for something to do this Summer. Check out the OHS clickable map at okhistory.org/sites to start planning your visit.

Keep in mind — some sites will be closed on Friday and/or Saturday for the holiday. #IndependenceDay #OklahomaHistory

How about How Curious? If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that How Curious is typically a documentary strand that explores interesting Oklahoma stories. But we’ve had a number of listeners asking how How Curious is…

How about How Curious? | KGOU
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#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory #KGOU #Podcast

Oklahoma Historical Society awards $1.1 million in grants for civil rights trail projects The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) has announced the awarding of over $1.1 million in grants to 28 organizations through the Civil Rights Trail Grant Program

Oklahoma Historical Society awards $1.1 million in grants for civil rights trail projects
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#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory

I've started a new sub-newsletter dedicated to Oklahoma history
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Blog Oklahoma Newsletter
#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory #Newsletter #Substack

1921 Black Wall Street Memorial / O Greenwood!/Commercial Destruction During 1921 Race War Historical Marker (A historical marker located in Tulsa in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.)

#OtD in 1921, the Black-majority Greenwood District in #TulsaOK was destroyed in an act of terrorism.

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@blackhistorydb.bsky.social
@tulsahistory.bsky.social
#oklahomahistory
#historicalmarker

Hildebrand Mill, est. 1845 at Flint Creek, Colcord, OK serving the #CherokeeNation for over125 years as a grist and lumber mill. Adapted from waterpower to gas until shuttered in 1967. I'm tangentially related to the founder.

#HildebrandMill #OklahomaHistory #HistoricPlaces #ChahtaPhotographer

Sieling Park Historical Marker .d Ida Sieling, widow of Henry Sieling and daughter of Herman Scheer, landscaped a run-down, city-owned plot of land across the street from her home into a beautiful botanical park. (A historical mark...

#OtD in 1939, Sieling Park was dedicated in #BrokenArrowOK

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but also reminds us that expansion comes with loss and that every piece of land has more than one story to tell.
(Centennial Land Run Monument • Nov 2023)
#OklahomaHistory #CentennialLandRunMonument #AmericanDream #NativeNations #BrokenTreaties #LegalSleightOfHand #Settlers

Townley Remembers Hamp Baker, as other admirers remember ‘Reagan Democrats’ - Capitol Beat OK Publisher’s Note: For this article, Pat McGuigan drew from several sources (as credited below), and did some reporting of his own. An effort is made here to lift up the memory of Corporation Commissio...

Thanks, CapitolBeatOK, for honoring my great-uncle Hamp Baker, especially noting he was a “consequential Democrat.” Grateful for the recognition of his impact! #OklahomaHistory #HampBaker www.capitolbeatok.com/reports/town...

1923–2011,Clara Luper, Langston alum & civil rights legend, led one of the 1st sit-ins in the U.S. (OKC, 1958). As a teacher & activist, she empowered youth & desegregated lunch counters—with courage & class. #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackExcellence #OklahomaHistory #LangstonPride #Trailblazer

I AM SO PROUD TO HAVE found Joan's old childhood home!
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#joancrawford #lawtonok #hollywood #oklahomahistory
#wirehanger #childabuse #explosivediarrhea
#marilynmonroe #lesbian #notlesbian #pepsi #pepsicola
#tookashit #clarkgable #malewhore @historicplaces.bsky.social

Understanding Minnie Atkins-Folk “Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't-the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear.” --David Grann, The Wager

The Oil Capital has torn out the pages of Minnie Atkins-Folk's lifestory in the role of its history. It has imposed a dark silence about her confession that Tommy Atkins was a fraud.
Here's a bit more about her.
#tulsa
#oklahomahistory
#tulsahistory
#tulsahistoricalsociety
#sandsprings

#History #OklahomaHistory #JanuaryHistory January 22, 1997, Lottie Williams, a resident of the state of Oklahoma, was struck by a six-inch piece of a delta II rocket carrying the Midcourse Space Experiment as it returned to earth from space. This makes her the only human to ever be hit by space junk

Delaware Indian people gathered outside their entrance of a large ceremonial log structure, circa 1920.

Period photograph of the Lenape 'Big House' (Xingwikaon) taken around 1920. The log structure, located in Washington County, Oklahoma, collapsed and decomposed by the late-20th century. #antiquities #ceremonialstructures #LenapeIndians #logstructures #Oklahomahistory

#abandoned
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#Oklahoma
#northwestoklahoma
#photography

Abandoned graves #southeastoklahoma
#history #choctaw #abandoned #oklahomahistory

’75 Years of Television in Oklahoma’ exhibit opens at OK History Center The exhibit tells the history in 25 pictures all along a wall in the museum. Twists and turns were all along the way before evolving into what we know today as Oklahoma’s News 4.

'75 Years of Television in Oklahoma' exhibit opens at OK History Center
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#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory

Cattle Trails.
Great Western Trail, Chisholm Trail, and Shawnee Trail
#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory

This is Oklahoma: Theodore Roosevelt’s Frederick wolf hunt leads to statehood Oklahoma's journey to statehood began in 1905, with President Theodore Roosevelt’s trip to Frederick.

This is Oklahoma: Theodore Roosevelt’s Frederick wolf hunt leads to statehood
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#Oklahoma #OklahomaHistory #FrederickOK