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 ...

Trooper Kenneth "Kenny" Osborn

July 7, 1947 - July 13, 1978

Joined the

Oklahoma Highway Patrol

in 1972

Trooper Osborn was killed on July 13, 1978 after stopping to investigate an abandoned vehicle on the Turner Turnpike. He was struck and killed by an out-of-control semi-trailer rig loaded ...

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, ...

Teixeira-Ruggio Square

Killed in action in World War II

John Teixeira

in Belgium Dec. 25, 1944

Pasquale Ruggio

in Corregidor Feb. 18, 1945

in memoriam

Marker is at the intersection of Thatcher Street and Lexington Ave, in the median on Thatcher Street.

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Tyree Tavern

Confederate and Union Headquarters

During his and Gen. Henry Alexander Wise’s unsuccessful Kanawha Valley campaign, Confederate Gen. John B. Floyd made his headquarters here, August 17-18, 1861, while Wise camped on the top of Big Sewell Mountain. In 1862, according to ...

Community Caretakers

Hub, Home, Heart

The elegant Romanesque portion of the Senate Square condominium complex started life in 1874 as the Little Sisters of the Poor House for the Aged. St. Aloysius Church member Ellen Sherman, wife of Civil War General William ...

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 ...

Roll Out the Barrel

Hub, Home, Heart

Stuart-Hobson Middle School, one block to the east of this sign, was built in 1927 on the site of an old brewery, one of nearly two dozen that operated in DC after the Civil War. Almost all ...