Miami, Oklahoma

Historical marker location:

45 N. Main Street, Miami, Oklahoma

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 69) and 1st Avenue NW, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1966

1891 --- 75 Years and Growing --- 1966. Teepees to Towers.

During the Great Depression, thousands of farmers in Oklahoma were displaced from their land due to drought and dust storms. Many of these farmers migrated to California in search of work, a journey that became known as the "Okie migration."