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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM299Y_site-of-beginning-trip-of-abernathy-boys-to-new-york-city-in-1910_Tipton-OK.html
On April 5, 1910, 9 year old Bud and 5 year old Temple Abernathy, left the Crossroads Ranch near Frederick, Oklahoma, and traveled alone on horseback to New York City. Their father, Jack Abernathy, a close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM298L_great-western-cattle-trail_Canute-OK.html
The Great Western Cattle Trail began at Bandera, TX. As the demand for beef increased in the east, returning Civil War soldiers headed wild longhorn cattle from south Texas and Mexico north to the railhead at Dodge City, KS. The first herd consist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2948_southwest-baptist-college_Hastings-OK.html
Opened October 28, 1907,
under auspices of
Comanche and Mullins
Baptist Associations
Ownership passed to
Baptist General Convention
of Oklahoma, 1910.
Moved to Mangum, 1912, Closed 1915.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28WJ_walters-oklahoma_Walters-OK.html
At the opening of Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands, the original townsite in old Comanche County was SW 1/4, T2S, R11W. The original name McKnight was rejected by the post office. The name Walter, for City Commissioner W.R. Walter, was then chosen Sept…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28WH_canute_Canute-OK.html
Early inhabitants of the area were plains Indians who followed and hunted the roaming herds of buffalo that grazed the rich grasslands of this area. evidence of several Indian encampments have been located on Trail Elk, Turkey and Oak Creeks as we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28V1_camp-radziminski_Mountain-Park-OK.html
Established Sept., 1858, by four troops of crack 2nd Cav., under Major Earl Van Dorn. Named in memory of Lt. Charles Radziminski, a former member of the Regt. E. Kirby Smith, Cornelius Van Camp, Fitzhugh Lee, W. B. Royall all served there. Permane…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM288L_washington-irvings-camp_Bixby-OK.html
"A Tour on the Prairies" by the great writer, Irving, describes his tour on horseback in Oklahoma with the U.S. Rangers from Fort Gibson. Irving camped on the creek near here, Oct. 12, 1832. Marker sponsored by the Tulsa County Historica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM286C_washington-irving_Bixby-OK.html
Washington Irving was one of America's greatest writers and is considered the "Father of the American Short Story." He is best known for THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, in which Ichabod Crane meets the neadless horseman, and RIP VAN WINKLE,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM270O_the-89er-trail-the-boomers_Oklahoma-City-OK.html
Captain David Payne and his Boomers defied federal authorities to attempt settlement in the Unassigned Lands.
From the 1830s onward, most of present-day Oklahoma was reserved for Native Americans who had been forcibly relocated from their ances…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26CU_milly-francis_Muskogee-OK.html
Milly Francis was the daughter of the Creek chief Hillis Hadjo during the Florida War 1817. Fifteen-year-old Milly by her plea saved the life of a young white officer Duncan McKrimmon, whom they were about to kill. She later declined his offer of …