Fitzgerald's Station

Here on this, the Old Wire Road, was located Fitzgerald's Station on the Butterfield Overland mail route from St. Louis to San Francisco.

First trip 1858. Last 1861. Longest and best conducted mail route in the world. 2795 miles. Service twice ...

The Joel Clayton House

Clayton Historical Museum

Joel Clayton, who founded Clayton in 1857, had this house built circa 1860, where Mitchell Creek meets Mount Diablo Creek.

After his death in 1872 the land was sold and the house had various uses. The Clayton Historical Society ...

Oklahoma City Oil Field

Oklahoma City Oil and Gas Field Discovery Well brought in December 4, 1928, approximately six miles southeast of this marker.

From such beginning, sprawling Oklahoma City Oil and Gas Field became one of world's major oil producing areas, ranking eighth in ...

Murrah Federal Building Bombing

Oklahoma Remembers!

The Redbud is the state tree of Oklahoma. The Redbud trees located here and at other locations along the Turnpike have been placed in memory of the innocent victims of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Murrah Building ...

Amador Valley Hotel

(Later the Dublin Hotel)

For 86 years a favorite congregating spot. Built by John Green in 1860, with a balcony over the porch and a gabled roof. A famous cross-roads stop and transfer point on the Oakland-Stockton and Martinez-San Jose stagecoach ...

Trooper Larry Crabtree

Dec. 3, 1943 - Apr. 4, 1977

Joined the

Oklahoma Highway Patrol

in 1964

Trooper Crabtee was killed on April 4, 1977 by a single shotgun blast fired by a sixteen year-old driver at Mile Fifty Eight. Trooper Crabtee had stopped the driver for ...

"They Were Poor, Hungry, and They Built to Last"

The Civilian Conservation Corps

The era of the "Great Depression" began with the crash of the stock market in 1929. The economy of the United States changed dramatically. Americans were in peril; unprecedented numbers were jobless. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took ...

Garland - Muccio Square

In Honor of

Russell K. Garland Pvt. November 14, 1944

Louis J. Muccio Pfc. September 16th 1944

Who died in the service of their country. They stand in th unbroken line of patriots Who have dared to die that freedom may live, ...

Oklahoma Military Academy Killed in Action Memorial

1919 - 1971

In lasting memory of all OMA cadets who gave their lives while serving with distinction and honor in the Armed Forces of the United States, as well as the Allied Forces of Canada and the United Kingdom. Their ...

Oklahoma Military Academy War Memorial

In memory and honor of those members of the Oklahoma Military Academy Corp[s] of Cadets who gave their lives and those missing in action that our nation might be free.

May this monument forever remind us that these men gave their ...