Arkalon and the Samson of the Cimarron

Many Kansas towns originated as potential railroad centers. Three miles west of this marker Arkalon was founded in 1888 at the Cimarron river crossing of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railway, a part of the Rock Island. Town lots were ...

When Coronado came to Kansas

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with 36 soldiers and Father Juan de Padilla, marched north from the Rio Grande valley in the spring of 1541. Coronado's objective was the land of Quivira, described to the Spaniards as a fabulously wealthy kingdom ...

Crystal Shrine Grotto

A unique cave was constructed by Memoral Park founder E. Clovis Hinds and Mexican artist Dionicio Rodriquez in 1935-38. Natural rock and quartz crystal collected from the Ozarks form the background for nine scenes from the life of Christ. The ...

Graham–Hoeme Chisel Plow

An Historic Landmark of Agricultural Engineering

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 ...

Camp Buck

Boy scout camp 1938-1974. Named for Samuel Buck (1874-1937), first High Bridge Troop 149 Scoutmaster & V.P. of Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Co.

Marker is on Camp Buck Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Guymon, Texas County, Oklahoma

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 1901, after E.T. Guymon, ...

The Cow

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 ...

Boise City Bombed

July 5, 1943

Still Booming

July 5, 1993

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Oklahoma Route 325) and Cimarron Avenue (U.S. 385), on the right when traveling west on Main Street.

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Fallasburg Covered Bridge

John W. and Silas S. Fallas settled here in 1837, founding a village which soon boasted a chair factory, sawmill, and gristmill. About 1840 the first of several wooden bridges was placed across the Flat River, but all succumbed in ...

Saranac

In 1836, when Saranac was settled, the upper Grand River Valley was a promising but undeveloped area. The soil was fertile; Lake Creek provided water power; and the river was navigable to Grand Rapids. The town grew slowly until 1857, ...