The Red Fork Trail Ranch House stood about a half-mile to the south of this location, now marked by a granite monument on Red Fork Street. The image above was drawn by Adolph Hunnius in 1876, a surveyor. (courtesy of the Kansas State Historical . . . — — Map (db m284625) HM
Stockade buildings of Red Fork Ranch on the Chisholm Trail, at the Cimarron or Red Fork river crossing here, included a stage station to change horses and a supply depot for travelers, late 1860's to 1890's. Troops from Ft. Sill were on duty here . . . — — Map (db m284626) HM
Site one-half mile west. This ranch station, noted watering place on the Old Chisholm Trail, was attacked in the last Indian Wars and found deserted a few days later, July 5, 1874, by Indian Agent J.D. Miles who asked for U.S. Cavalry to guard the . . . — — Map (db m284623) HM
On the Old Chisholm Trail. This station was noted for its water well; the name, from a huge indentation in the ground here, resembling imprint of a bull's foot. Buildings were still standing on site, 50 yards east of the old trail, and 4.5 miles . . . — — Map (db m284621) HM
Oklahoma's 1st rural mail route was established at Hennessey on Aug. 15, 1900, with Albert W. Darrow as carrier, his salary at $500 a year. J.A. Felt was the Hennessey postmaster. Route ran east over 24 mi., serving population of 700, in 31 sq. mi. — — Map (db m284610) HM
Serving as a post office from 1890 to 1909. The town was named for John F. Lacey from Iowa who served as a member of the congressional committee on Indian Affairs and Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands which opened Oklahoma Territory to . . . — — Map (db m284605) HM
Honoring the veterans of World War One and World War Two who so valiantly and triumphantly defended our national honor
Vietnam Capt. Edward L. Goucher 1938-1967
Left Panel
World War One
1917-1918
Everett H. Best, 1890–1918 . . . — — Map (db m284616) WM
Freighter Hennessey's charred body tied to his wagon wheel was found in a smouldering fire near 3 of his drivers, all killed on July 4, 1874, in last Indian wars when his train was on way along Chisholm Trail to Kiowa Agency. Grave is 2 blocks west. — — Map (db m284608) HM
Attacked & killed by Indians, July 2, 1874.
Reverse Side
Hennessey, Pat Hennessey, Who Gave Our Town, Thy Name, While Time Lasts, We'll Sing Thy Praise, Thou'Lt Live for Aye and Aye in Fame
by Mrs. Annette B. Ehler
Memorial by . . . — — Map (db m284613) HM
After his regiment helped in the victory at Las Quasimas, Cuba, he was killed as he charged over San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898, in the Spanish-Americans War. This Oklahoma boy - Hennessey High School graduate - rode horseback to Guthrie, and enlisted . . . — — Map (db m284609) HM
Erected in Memory of
Roy V. Cashion
Born March 16 1881
Troop D 1st U.S. Vol.
Rouch Riders
Killed July 1 1898
on San Juan Hill
Battle of Santiago
Cuba — — Map (db m284615) WM
"Apostle Paul Sykes"
The first sculpture to be placed on the sidewalk is "Apostle" Paul Sykes, a black man born into slavery who walked from Mississippi to Kingfisher for the land opening of 1891. Sykes founded the Straightgate Church and . . . — — Map (db m284648) HM
Located 3 miles north. Was formed Mar. 17, 1920, by a special election vote to consolidate the districts of White Cap, Twilight, Wandell, and Bird Creek. The school graduated its first senior class in 1924 its last in 1968. It continued as a grade . . . — — Map (db m184804) HM
Four years after his arrival in Kingfisher in 1893, 27-year old Arthur Ellsworth (A.E.) Bracken opened a second-hand furniture store on Main Street, adding an undertaking department in 1899. By 1909, he had completed construction of this two-story . . . — — Map (db m284686) HM
Charles "C.P." Wickmiller first came to Oklahoma as the photographer for Captain David L. Payne on his 1883 "Boomer" expedition, then returned to stake his claim in the April 22, 1889 Land Run. That afternoon he set up his pharmacy supplies in a . . . — — Map (db m284652) HM
Born in Virginia in 1832, Abraham Jefferson Seay, served as Oklahoma's third territorial governor. When he was four, the Seay family moved to Missouri where Abraham taught school and later practiced law.
In 1861 Seay enlisted in the United . . . — — Map (db m284770) HM
Constructed in 1892, this house originally belonged to Abraham Jefferson Seay, the third territorial governor of Oklahoma. Seay sold his home to G.H. Logan in October 1901. Mr. Logan was the founder of Logan-Ames Co. and a business owner in . . . — — Map (db m284766) HM
This was the U.S. Land Office site for filing claims at opening of "Old Oklahoma," April 22, 1889; also at opening of Cheyenne and Arapaho lands on April 19, 1892. J. C. Robberts was first Register, and J. V. Admire, first Receiver. First . . . — — Map (db m29318) HM
Founded by Congregationalists, this college – site one mile north, 1890- 1922, achieved renown in education and character-building.
It lives on at the University of Oklahoma as the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion . . . — — Map (db m72993) HM
This stage station on the old Chisholm Trail, 1867-1889, was 4 blocks no., on south side of Kingfisher Creek. The trail had two branches in this area; one for cattle was 6 miles east. — — Map (db m185854) HM
Lame Bull is honored here as a prominent medicine man, artist, and leader within the Cheyenne. He was also a Cheyenne Arrow Priest and knowledgeable of Cheyenne Arrow ceremony. He was born in 1833 to Shaking Crane and Yellow Horse Woman and lived . . . — — Map (db m268846) HM
Kingfisher's first opera house located on Robberts Ave., burned down in August of 1900. The new Grand Opera House was opened soon after on the second floor of the Pappe Building at this site and could seat up to 800 people. The building was one of . . . — — Map (db m284687) HM
The Peoples National Bank, founded in 1889, was one of the first banks in Kingfisher. Ten years later, the bank was sold to a group of businessmen. They selected Col. John F. Stone from the group to serve as President.
In January of 1900, after . . . — — Map (db m284646) HM
Although Kingfisher, Blaine, and other western Oklahoma counties were enjoying an excellent agriculture economy, in the late 1940's, access to telecommunications had not kept pace for most rural residents. Because the population was not centered in . . . — — Map (db m284645) HM
Horizon Hill was originally three stories, boasting five bedrooms, two parlors, a large dining room, and a ballroom. After a storm damaged the home in the 1920s, the third floor was converted into an attic, and the roof line was lowered.
For . . . — — Map (db m284767) HM
On this line -- 98° W. Longitude -- many campers sat by their fires the night before the opening of "Old Oklahoma." The next day at noon on April 22, 1889, many people set out running on foot and by horse for 160 acre land claims in unassigned . . . — — Map (db m185808) HM
East boundary of Indian country -- 98° W. Longitude west of this line lay the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Each member of their two tribes had been allotted 160 acres before the surplus land was opened to settlers. At noon April 19, 1892 they . . . — — Map (db m185816) HM
This area was first in Oklahoma to receive central station electric power from a rural electric cooperative. Cimarron Electric Cooperative (incorporated Consumers Rural Electric Company on Dec. 23, 1936) energized Oklahoma's first electric . . . — — Map (db m284631) HM
Raymond A. Young started operations here in Kingfisher with a single variety goods store on this site in 1928, expanding to 12 stores in the following years.
By 1935, Young's expanded business required relocation of the warehouse and purchasing . . . — — Map (db m284647) HM
This trade route from southern Texas to Kansas was used to drive an estimated five million head of cattle north to the raiheads in Abilene, Kansas from 1867 to 1884.
Named for a man of Scottish-Cherokee descent who built several trading posts . . . — — Map (db m185870) HM
Formerly stood in the Blackjacks southeast of Dover and was the home of Adaline Dalton the last 16 years of her life. The Daltons came to Oklahoma in 1890 and settled on a school quarter northeast of Kingfisher. Adaline was the mother of 13 children . . . — — Map (db m284764) HM
At the opening of the "Unassigned Lands" to homesteaders in 1889, a quarter section in Skeleton Township was reserved for a townsite. Named Sheridan in honor of Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, the town grew until 1902, when nearby Marshall became the . . . — — Map (db m284550) HM
