Charles Colcord

Charles Colcord (HM2ME9)

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N 35° 27.982', W 97° 31.021'

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— The '89er Trail —

Cowboy, police chief, legislator, wildcatter, entrepreneur, and developer

Charles Colcord, a native of Kentucky, spent his formative years as a cowboy in western Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. In 1889, at age 29, he came to Oklahoma City looking for opportunity, and found it by trading his horse and bridle for lot 1, block 1, next to the Santa Fe tracks on Reno. His wife soon joined him, spending her first night at the Arbecka Hotel across from Santa Fe station and complaining about the noise of carousers in Hell's Half Acre.

Colcord was soon serving as a deputy U.S. marshal, doing his best to maintain law and order in the frontier city. In the fall of 1889, he and his wife bought a house at the corner of 4th and Broadway, which would later be the site of the Daily Oklahoman.

A year later, Colcord was elected as the first territorial police chief in Oklahoma City. He would later serve in the territorial legislature, and when oil was discovered at Red Fork, near Tulsa, he became a wildcatter. His success as an entrepreneur in oil and real estate made him a prominent citizen. In 1903, he built a large house on 13th Street at the edge of what is today the Heritage Hills neighborhood, and in 1910 he built the Colcord office building, which today is the Colcord Hotel.

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Top left:The



city's first Police Department led by Chief Charles Colcord (seated) in 1890.

Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Bottom left: The home of Charles Colcord at 421 N.W. 13th St. Construction on the house was completed in 1903. Its demolition in 1965 ushered in the historic preservation movement in Oklahoma City. Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Middle: At the time of its completion in 1910, the 12-story Colcord Building, at 15 North Robinson, was the city's first skyscraper and the tallest building in the state. Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society
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HM NumberHM2ME9
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Year Placed2018
Placed ByOklahoma City Community Foundation, Wiggin Properties
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Date Added Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 at 5:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)14S E 634557 N 3925773
Decimal Degrees35.46636667, -97.51701667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 27.982', W 97° 31.021'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 27' 58.92" N, 97° 31' 1.26" W
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