Federal-Georgia Road

During 1805–08, the U.S. Government and State of Tennessee constructed the Federal–Georgia Road in order to connect Tennessee to the Atlantic seaboard. The road proceeded north from Augusta to Spring Place, Georgia, where it divided. Federal Road proceeded northeast to ...

Fiery Gizzard

(obverse)

Nearby, in the early 1870’s, a crude experimental blast furnace was built by Samuel E. Jones for the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company. Called “Fiery Gizzard”, the furnace was to determine if coke burned from local coal was of suitable ...

Lucy Virginia Smith French

Poet and author, born 1825 in Accomac County, Va. Moved to Memphis ca. 1845, where she taught school and published poetry under the pseudonym “L’Inconnue”. Editor of several Southern literary magazines; married John French in 1853; moved to his McMinnville ...

Land of Hope

1893 • 1994

This statue, "Land of Hope," depicts the courageous pioneers who staked their land claim in the "Land Run of the Cherokee Outlet" in 1893. This was created by sculptor, Bernadette Hess Carman, a native daughter, who generously donated ...

Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1807 as the Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufacture and the Useful Arts, the nation's third oldest Chamber of Commerce met here in the old log courthouse, led by Crawford Messenger editor Thomas Atkinson and Holland Land ...

African-Americans

From the beginning, African-Americans settled and lived in Newkirk -- although this was not true in most of the towns in Kay County. They settled primarily on the east side of town, building their own community which included churches, restaurants, ...

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

"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 ...

Site of German Prisoner of War Camp Known as Camp Tonkawa

World War II

Front

Legend [and POW Camp diagram]

See other side for story

Back

Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to build Camp Tonkawa on the quarter section immediately north of this marker SE¼ Sec ...

The Southwest Boulevard Fire

August 18, 1959

Firefighter Virgil Sams

Captain George Bartels

Firefighter Delbert Stone

Firefighter Neal Owen

Captain Peter Sirna

Civilian Francis J. Toomes

To each who come before this

memorial in remembrance of the final

fire for these six, we pray ...

Flags Flown Over Oklahoma

First Flag

Royal Standard of Spain

Coronado's Expedition

1541

Second Flag

Great Union of Great Britain

Carolina Land Grant

Included Oklahoma

1663

Third Flag

Royal Standard of France

LaSalle Claimed the Territory

Drained by the Mississippi

1682

Fourth Flag

Bourbon Standard

of the Spanish Empire

Ceded by France to Spain,

Treaty of Paris

1763

Fifth Flag

Standard of the

French Republic

Province of ...