When the Marland Building was completed in 1923 it was a welcomed addition to a city which was running out of retail and office space. Ponca City had blossomed after the discovery of the Three Sands and Burbank oil fields. New merchants and . . . — — Map (db m263666) HM
This is the third and final structure to be built on this block by philanthropist oilman E.W. Marland. The middle building was completed first and Marland envisioned spending $250,000 to complete the block in a way which would harmonize with the . . . — — Map (db m263755) HM
Mary Eliza Oates was the third President of the 20th Century Club. The 20th Century Club operated a book exchange in the early 1900’s which started events that resulted in the establishment of the Ponca City Library. Mrs. Oates wrote and submitted . . . — — Map (db m263595) HM
It is very likely that without the involvement and cooperation of various local and national Indian tribes, the 101 Ranch operating from 1893 to 1936, with headquarters at this location, could have been as successful as it once was.
Having been . . . — — Map (db m188168) HM
The centennial bench is made of steel, like the people who have made Oklahoma what it is today. The bench is 100 inches long and there will be 100 of them produced. Each bench will come with a certificate of origin and number of each bench. The . . . — — Map (db m263883) HM
“A strictly modern, recently completed fireproof building, one of the most attractive in Ponca City, is the new home of the Orville Savage Motor Company at 200 West Grand Avenue.” These words were used to describe the building at the formal . . . — — Map (db m263800) HM
Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to house a small “book . . . — — Map (db m55710) HM
To the men and women of Ponca City who served their country during the World War.Acton, Geo. Bill • Acton, Gerson • Acton, Sidney W. • Ahlschwede, C. W. • Anstine, E. L. • Arrandell, C. W. • Bacher, Omer • Barnes, Warren • Barnhart, . . . — — Map (db m263901) WM
Tribute to a once powerful and populous tribe forced to leave their Nebraska home by the United States in 1877 and settled in the Cherokee Outlet in 1879. They have contributed much to the colorful history and well being of Kay County. Chief . . . — — Map (db m263596) HM
Ponca Military Academy was established in 1940 by the late Colonel William V. Cox and his wife Blanche. PMA made a vibrant contribution to the Ponca City community and to the State of Oklahoma. Dedicated to the growth and advancement of young . . . — — Map (db m200076) HM
Built in 1927, the Poncan Theater experienced the transition between live performances and “the new talking pictures.” It was the fifth and grandest theater in a town of 16,000 people. Boller Brothers, an architectural firm from Kansas City, . . . — — Map (db m263725) HM
According to official records, the townsite now known as Ponca City established its first Post Office in January 1894. This was four months after the Land Run and three months after the rival townsite of Cross started to receive mail. Cross was . . . — — Map (db m263600) HM
On behalf of the Royal Air Force Cadets and the US Army Air Force who served and trained at the Darr School of Aeronautics Number 6 British Flying Training School in Ponca City between August 1941 and April 1944. Their association registers their . . . — — Map (db m223521) HM WM
The Royalty building is one of many architectural legacies left by oilman E.W. Marland. This Mission-styled structure was designed by architect John Duncan Forsyth, who also created the two buildings to the east of the Royalty building. According . . . — — Map (db m263598) HM
Santa Fe Depot The Santa Fe Train Depot was built in 1911 at a cost of $22,000 in the architectural style of Mission-Spanish Colonial Revival. The depot building had curved parapets, arched windows and door openings, gabled ends and light . . . — — Map (db m263796) HM
Two Old Potato Plows that were used on the 101 Ranch.
Donated by Long Time Member Jack Keathly.
101 Ranch Old Timers Association — — Map (db m188256) HM
Pioneer Mayor — Financed Marland Discovery Well — Built tank farm — Executive Vice Pres Marland Oil Co — Head of Southland Royalty — Donor Girls’ Camp McFadden — Co-founder of American Legion Home School — — Map (db m263776) HM
Site of German Prisoner of War Camp known as Camp Tonkawa – World War II – Jan. 1943 – Sept 1945
Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to build Camp Tonkawa on the quarter section . . . — — Map (db m55713) HM
"Hear me my Chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
With these words, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered to Colonel Nelson A. Miles of the United States Army and thus . . . — — Map (db m60427) HM
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
In February 1873 the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the Federal General Land Office. Two years later the same office issued another map calling them the Gloss Mountains. Thus precipitating a conflict that continues to this day. . . . — — Map (db m55717) HM
The sidewalk you are standing on was built on the original highway grade referred to as a "thoughfare" in 1924, State Highway 47 in 1927, and State Highway 15 in 1930.
Since horse powered equipment could not penetrate the mountain where the . . . — — Map (db m182888) HM
The gypsum and shale buttes before you are relics of millions of years of geologic history. The white gypsum and red-brown shale were deposited in shallow seas that covered all of western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle during the Permian Period, . . . — — Map (db m183142) HM
The Gloss Mountains region has witnessed the passage of many visitors. Until the 1800's this area was the hunting domain of such Plains Indian tribes as the Apache, Kiowa and Comanche. Countless herds of buffalo once traveled here in their search . . . — — Map (db m182927) HM
Due to its unique stone monument, constructed in 1926 by the 101 Ranch and the Oklahoma Historical Society, this National Historic Landmark is known as Monument Hill. The reconstructed monument was dedicated in 1927 to Ponca Tribal Chief White . . . — — Map (db m188250) HM
Named for its cattle brand "101", this ranch was begun by Col. Geo. W. Miller on his claim at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, Sept. 16, 1893. Operated by sons George, Joe and Zach Miller, the ranch covered 100,000 a. by 1926, world famous for its . . . — — Map (db m181522) HM
The creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 gave promise to many communities affected by the Great Depression of the 30s. Through the cooperative efforts of the Chamber of Commerce, city . . . — — Map (db m226076) HM
Dedicated to the young men of the Otoe Missouri Indians who served in the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Campaign — — Map (db m201093) WM
The Otoes were prairie-dwellers and Hunters. They migrated from the Lake Michigan area to Iowa then to Nebraska in 1700. The Missouria merged with the Otoe Tribe in 1798. Removal to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) began October 5 with arrival at the . . . — — Map (db m200073) HM
Eureka was established in 1908 with 18 square miles. The high school was started in 1919 when Center, Lincoln, and one half of Pleasant Veiw were consolidated. In 1923, the Nabisco, Happy Flat, and East Banner districts were added and a new building . . . — — Map (db m200597) HM
Barbed wire didn't tame the west, nor did cowboys. The conqueror of the vast midsection of this country was the stately, creaking, dependable windmill. It brought water to livestock and people, and water was what it took to make the land bloom.
. . . — — Map (db m188368) HM
Edward T. Guymon was born in Illinois in 1859. At 21 he moved to McPherson, Kansas from Coatsburg, Illinois. Story is he sold a cow for $22 to pay his fare west. He loaded coal for the Santa Fe Railroad as a clerk and partner for the Star . . . — — Map (db m55265) HM
Townsite planned on Rock Island Railroad survey by
Inter-State Land & Town Co. in 1900.
Rock Island Railroad built through Oklahoma Panhandle 1901.
Town founded as Sanford Post Office 14 June 1901, changed to
Guymon Post Office on 29 June . . . — — Map (db m55267) HM
Discovered in 1918, and drilled in the 1930's, the Hugoton Gas Field was one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the world. The Hugoton field which is approximately 3000' deep extends from SW Kansas through the Oklahoma Panhandle and into the . . . — — Map (db m55261) HM
The largest individual gas reserve in the United States covers much of the Oklahoma panhandle extending northward from Texas through this area and into Kansas this sprawling Hugoton Panhandle field provides gas to comfort mankind fire the boilers of . . . — — Map (db m78818) HM
The rancher, bringing his cattle, first came to the open range of No Man's Land in the mid-1800s. Barbed wire fences later defined areas of ownership. Confined cattle feedyards developed in the 1950's. These feedlots resulted partly because of the . . . — — Map (db m55264) HM
Homesteading families in the Panhandle commonly had a pig or two for personal consumption. It was not until 1992 when Seaboard Farms announced they were going to build a pork processing plant in Guymon that the pork industry leapt forward here on . . . — — Map (db m55262) HM
Old Hardesty was a typical trade center and the mecca of early cowboys in No Man's Land. The town, located about 3 miles northeast of this marker was named for Col. Jack Hardesty, a prominent rancher in the area. Old Hardesty flourished when trail . . . — — Map (db m188257) HM
This tract donated to the Hardesty Home Demonstration Club in loving memory of the late John H. Randles, Hardesty pioneer who homesteaded this land in 1903. By Mrs. John H. Randles — — Map (db m188272) HM
Preventing wind erosion was the primary objective of Feed Hoeme, a Hooker, Oklahoma farmer, when he developed a heavy-duty chisel plow in 1933. Hoeme and his sons manufactured and sold about 2000 plows from their farmstead. In 1938, W.T. Graham . . . — — Map (db m55270) HM
The post office of Loretta was established May 7, 1898. It was moved to the Texas-Okla. line and the name was changed to Texhoma on Nov. 12, 1901.
The Panhandle of Okla. was called No Man's Land. It was owned by Spain in 1541, . . . — — Map (db m78864) HM
In 1901, when the new Rock Island Railroad tracks reached here, the post office called Loretta, located NW along the Beaver River, was moved to the new tracks and renamed Texhoma for the two states at its location. From only five families living . . . — — Map (db m78865) HM
Organized Baptist work in the Oklahoma Panhandle began Aug. 5, 1894 when the Pleasant View Baptist Church was founded with 8 charter members 1½ mi. N and 1½ mi. E of here. Meetings were in the Pleasant View school house until after the . . . — — Map (db m55272) HM
From this famous well, cattlemen watered their herds of thousands of stock while waiting shipment over the Rock Island Railroad, after long trail drives to the end of the track near old Tyrone. The well was located by J. U. Shade and H. B. Fore in . . . — — Map (db m55271) HM
Oklahoma’s celebrated Thunderbird Division saw extensive action both in WWII and Korea. The 45th’s Signal Unit was based in Alva. Mural painted by Robbie Pierce and Don Prechtel, 2012 — — Map (db m265599) HM
The Alva Prisoner of War camp began receiving German prisoners in July of 1943. Prisoners arrived by rail and were marched 2½ miles to the camp located on the south edge of town. Mural Painted by Don Prechtel and Robbie Pierce, . . . — — Map (db m265600) HM
The Alva Speedway was a popular stock car racing venue in the 1950s attracting such drivers as A. J. Foyt, Billy Mears and Bobby Swegart. Mural painted by Kenny Youngblood, 2005 — — Map (db m265593) HM
Born to slave parents in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas, Reeves became the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi River and one of the most respected lawmen working in Indian Territory. He served for 35 years and brought in more . . . — — Map (db m265591) HM
Originally known as the Science Annex, the building that was later named Carter Hall was erected in 1935-36 in connection with the construction of Jesse Dunn Hall. It housed all science departments and a natural history museum until 1963, when a . . . — — Map (db m265989) HM
Legislation that established Northwestern Territorial Normal School in 1897 also directed the Board of Education to “advertise for plans and specifications for a suitable building… with an estimate of the cost thereof.” With the support of area . . . — — Map (db m265793) HM
Work on the new building was so far advanced by July 1, 1898, that town leaders formed a committee to plan a major celebration for the laying of the cornerstone. The entire population got into the spirit of the occasion. Stores were decorated with . . . — — Map (db m265795) HM
Northwestern’s first building was designed by Joseph Foucart, the first professional architect in Oklahoma; however, the castle-like character of the building is believed to have evolved under the influence of the school’s president, James E. . . . — — Map (db m265794) HM
Tragedy struck Northwestern on March 1, 1935, when the Castle on the Hill was destroyed by fire. Flames had spread through much of the building and were well beyond control when first discovered around 2 A.M. Efforts to control the roaring flames . . . — — Map (db m265796) HM
• Son of pioneer merchants, Lizzie and Charles Share. • Served in U.S Armed Forces in WWI. • Active in the Presbyterian Church. • Established the Charles Morton Share Trust which has funded the Library, Hospital, Professional Building, Wellness . . . — — Map (db m265592) HM
Completed in 1907, a structure known originally as the Science Hall became the second building on the campus of Northwestern Normal School, as the institution was then known. Designed by S. A. Layton, architect of Oklahoma’s State Capitol, it . . . — — Map (db m265890) HM
In the early 1900s, Woods County farmers knew threshing season had begun when the cook shack arrived followed by the threshing rig and a crew of up to 15 men. The cook shack served as the kitchen and dining facility, sleeping quarters for the cooks . . . — — Map (db m265667) HM
Recognizing Northwestern as a vital part of the state’s higher education system, the Oklahoma Legislature in 1923 appropriated funds for a new campus building that became Herod Hall. Contract controversies delayed construction, which was completed . . . — — Map (db m265800) HM
In May of 1954, John and Darlene established Holtzclaw's Jewelry Store on this location. The site formerly had been a coal yard, later converted to a barber shop and beauty salon. Holtzclaw's Jewelry offered a full range of services from expert . . . — — Map (db m265699) HM
A state bond issue provided funds for a new library, erected in 1962-63 in a joint project with a new science building. With more funds available in 1967, a two-story addition of the library was built on the west. It extended to the Education . . . — — Map (db m265892) HM
After a fire in 1935 destroyed Northwestern’s first building, the “Castle on the Hill,” funds to replace it were provided by the Oklahoma Legislature and the Federal Public Works Administration. The new building, Jesse Dunn Hall, was designed by . . . — — Map (db m265968) HM
