The Basin Park Sycamore

I stood here growing so many years,

I shared your laughter, I shared your tears.

My life was good, beginning to end,

and this is a wish I'd like to send.

Be happy and kind to all around,

and let not sorrow be ever found.

The ...

The Basin Bath House

Basin Bath House was established 1879 adjacent to Basin Spring by Dr. Alvah Jackson's son, Thomas. John S. Tibbs succeeded Jackson about 1880, operated bath house and Eureka Water Shipping Company. Building was destroyed by Great Fire of 1888, replaced ...

The "Bottom" Village

The “Bottom” residential village, built in the mid-1930s, was the first housing project developed by Henry Ford for his employees in the Ways Station (later Richmond Hill) area. The name originated from the fact that the area had been a ...

Phelan-Verot House Built Prior to 1866

On February 5, 1875, Jean-Pierre Augustin Verot, Bishop of Saint Augustine, purchased this cottage from Sarah Phelan. The Sisters of Saint Joseph lived here in the year 1877, when a devastating epidemic of yellow fever swept over the Amelia Island ...

The Growler Saloon – Goethals Building

Two Historic Clayton Buildings

Two historic Clayton buildings were combined to create this restaurant. A bicentennial project.

One was an 1870’s home that Jack Duncan rebuilt circa 1908. It became a store, post office (1926 – 1937), barber shop, and the Growler ...

Tribute to Range Riders

This statue was fashioned by

Constance Whitney Warren

Sculptress of Paris, France and New York,

and was presented to

The State of Oklahoma

by this distinguished American Artist

through the solicitation of

Justice Albert C. Hunt

of

the Supreme Court of Oklahoma,

and

Charles Cason

of New York.

This bronze tribute to the

Romantic ...

The Christian Brothers Mt. La Salle Vineyards

The Christian Brothers started their wine business September 2, 1882, at Martinez, California. On May 29, 1930, they bought the Mont La Salle property from Theodore Gier and began to move winery equipment and 54,000 gallons of wine from Martinez ...

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 ...

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 ...