Near U.S. 77 near 312th Road, on the right when traveling south.
The Cherokee Outlet or Strip south of here was opened to a land rush in 1893. This tract of land was 60 miles wide and stretched along the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Due to a surveying error, a two-mile strip lay north of the Kansas border. The land . . . — — Map (db m304696) HM
On 312th Street at U.S. 77, on the left when traveling west on 312th Street.
Dedicated to
the many thousands who pioneered
The Cherokee Strip
September 16, 1893
Thousands gathered in this area to start a
new frontier, six million acres of Cherokee
Indian land was opened to homesteaders.
Tension, danger . . . — — Map (db m60486) HM
On U.S. 77 at Judo Road, on the left when traveling north on U.S. 77.
September 11, 1893
Thousands of Americans gathered in this township preparing to make the run for homesteads in the Cherokee Strip, a tract of land 58 miles wide, opening 6,500,000 acres for White settlement bought from the Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m60480) HM
