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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23XA_tower-of-reconciliation-and-healing-walkway_Tulsa-OK.html
Healing Walkway "Lifting as we climb-The eternal verities shall prevail" ~ B.C. Franklin ~ ———————————————————— We have b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WC_the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921_Tulsa-OK.html
The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. It began after Dick Rowland, a nineteen-year-old African American shoe shiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a young white elevator operator,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W7_mt-zion-baptist-church_Tulsa-OK.html
Built and dedicated April 4, 1921 Completely reduced to charred smoldering ruin during Tulsa's infamous race riot June 1, 1921 Rebuilt and dedicated as a monument to faithfulness and perseverance October 21, 1952 Dedicated and registered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W5_john-hope-franklin-reconciliation-park_Tulsa-OK.html
"I think knowing one's history leads one to act in a more enlightened fashion. I can not imagine how knowing one's history would not urge one to be an activist." Dr. John Hope Franklin who forever changed the way that Americans think of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VH_washington-irving_Tulsa-OK.html
Excerpts Washington Irving's Tour on the Prairies 1832 ———————————— "It seems to me as if these beautiful regions answer literally to the description of the land of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23V0_indian-memorial_Tulsa-OK.html
682 feet east of this marker the territories of the Cherokee · Creek · Osage Tribes of Indians join in a common boundary point On June 2, 1825, the Osage Nation, under treaty with the U.S. granted certain lands to the go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23U9_pioneer-association-picnic-grounds-1921-memorial_Tulsa-OK.html
This marker and the upright monument moved from original location on Kennedy Farm on West Newton in 1950. Horizontal slabs added later. Memorial This stone marks the ground where "Old Timers" who had lived in Tulsa and vicinity over thirty…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23U2_tulsas-oldest-house_Tulsa-OK.html
Typical house of early 1880's Originally built on acreage 400 North Cheyenne was parsonage home of Rev Sylvester Morris Tulsa Indian Territory Methodist minister (1836-1907)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23TT_booker-t-washington-high-school_Tulsa-OK.html
(front) Constructed on this site in 1913, Booker T. Washington High School served as the separate school for Black students in Tulsa. The first building was a four-room wooden frame structure. A sixteen-room brick facility with a basement replac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23TE_international-petroleum-exposition_Tulsa-OK.html
The International Petroleum Exposition was founded at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1923 providing a display to the world of the latest in equipment, operational ideas and practices used in the petroleum and related industries. When the first exposition wa…
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