Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
1210-1212-1214 North Hudson Historic District
American Legion Hut
Arcadia Round Barn
Arcadia Route 66 Roadbed
Automobile Alley Historic District
Avery Building
Bourne Dairy
Braniff Building
Brockway Community Center
Buttram, Frank and Merle, House and Grounds
Cain's Coffee Building
Calvary Baptist Church
Capitol Hill Commercial Historic District
Capitol Hill General Hospital
Capitol-Lincoln Terrace Historic District
Carey Place Historic District
Cartmill Farm House
Case, J. I., Plow Works Building
Central High School
Citizens Bank Tower
Citizens State Bank
Citizens State Bank
Colcord Building
Cotton-Exchange Building
Crown Heights Historic District
Czech Hall of Oklahoma City-Lodge Laska
Douglass High School, Old,
Dunbar Elementary School
Edgemere Park Historic District
Edmond Armory
Edwards Heights Historic District
Edwards Historic District
Edwards, Walter J. and Frances W., House
Elks Lodge Building
Elks Victory Lodge-Ruby's Grill Building
Engels' Dry Goods Store
Fairchild Winery
Fairview Community Center
Farmers Public Market
Fidelity National Building
Film Exchange Historic District
First Christian Church
First Christian Church Historic District
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First National Bank and Trust Company Building
Gatewood East Historic District
Gatewood West Historic District
Goodholm House
Gower Cemetery
Hales, W. T., House
Harbour-Longmire Building
Harding Junior High School
Harmony School
Harn House
Haywood Building
Heierding Building
Heritage Hills East Historic District
Heritage Hills Historic and Architectural District
Hightower Building
Hopewell Baptist Church
India Temple Shrine Building
Iroquois Apartments
Jefferson Park Historic District
Jewel Theater
Jones, Charles G., Farmstead
Kaiser's Ice Cream Parlour
Kelley Club
Kingman-Moore Building
Kivlehen House
Lake Overholser Bridge
Lake Overholser Dam
Lincoln Park Bathhouse
Lincoln Plaza Historic District
Lincoln Terrace East Historic District
Littlepage Building
Luster, Melvin F., House
Lyons, Sidney and Mary, House and Commercial Historic District
Mager Mortgage Company Building
Magnolia Petroleum Building
Main Public Library
Main Street Arcade
Maney Historic District
Mayfair, The
McClean House
Medical Arts Building
Merchants Transfer and Storage
Mesta Park
Mid-Continent Life Building
Mideke Supply Building
Milk Bottle Grocery
Miller's Boulevard Historic District
Miller-Jackson Building
Municipal Auditorium
Mutual Savings and Loan Association Building
Norton-Johnson Buick Company
Oklahoma City Discovery Well
Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
Oklahoma City Municipal Building
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Oklahoma City Schools Administration Building
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma County Courthouse
Oklahoma County Home for Girls
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company Building
Oklahoma Hardware Building
Oklahoma Historical Society Building
Oklahoma National Guard Armory
Oklahoma Publishing Company Building
Oklahoma State Capitol
Old North Tower, Central State College
Osler Building
Overholser House
Paseo Neighborhood Historic District
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Pioneer Building
Pioneer Telephone Company Warehouse and Garage
Plaza Court
Pollock, Donald, House
Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Office Building
Putnam Heights Historic Preservation District
Richardson, Edward, Building
"Ringing the Wild Horse" Site
Rock Island Plow Building
Santa Fe Depot
Shepherd Historic District
Sherman Machine and Iron Works Building
Sieber Grocery and Apartment Hotel
Sinopoulo, John, House
Skirvin Hotel
Slaughter, Dr. W.H., House
Smith and Kernke Funeral Directors
Spanish Village Historic District
St. Joseph's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral
Stanford Furniture Co. Building
State Highway Department Testing Laboratory
Stockyards City Historic District
Stonegate Elementary School
Taft Junior High School
The "Y" Chapel of Song
Threatt Filling Station
Town House Hotel
Tradesman's National Bank Building
Trinity United Presbyterian Church
Tuton's Drugstore
Union Depot
United Founders Life Tower
Villa Teresa Historic District
Walcourt Building
Weather Service Building
Wells Fargo and Company Livery Stable
Wesley Hospital
Whittier School
Will Rogers Park Gardens and Arboretum
179th Infantry Regiment
1834 Dragoon Expedition
A Past to Remember, A Future to Mold
A Summer of Political Unrest
Air Force Monument
Alikchi Court Grounds
Allie Pierce Reynolds
Altus Air Force Base
American Elm
And Jesus Wept
Angelo C. Scott
Arcadia Round Barn, Arcadia, Oklahoma
As Long As The Waters Flow
Automobile Alley
Automobile Alley
Automobile Alley
Automobile Alley
Babbs Switch School Fire
Beale Defeats Overholser For Mayor
Beverly and Karl White
Big Pasture
Bison Tracks
Bloomfield Academy
Blue River
Bobby Murcer
Building Occupants
Butterfield Overland Stage
Cannon
Carl Owen Hubbell
Centennial Fountain at United Way Plaza
Centennial Land Run Monument Project
Central High School
Central State College
Central State Normal
Chahte Tamaha
Charles Colcord
Chickasaw Nation
Children's Area
Choctaw Nation
Choctaw Nation Flag
City Hall by Forfeiture
Civilian Conservation Corps
Classen's Grove
Colbert's Ferry and Denison Dam
Combat Wounded Veterans
Corn and Pumpkin
Cross Timbers
Current Oklahoma State Flag
David L. Boren Student Union
Devil's Canyon
Devon Oil and Gas Exploration Park
East and West Shawnee Trails
Edmond Public School 1889
Edmond Station, Indian Territory
Everybody Had One
Expedition of Bernard de la Harpe
F-80C
Farmers Grain Company
First Flag of the Republic of Texas
First Methodist Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
First National Flag of the Confederacy
First Oklahoma State Flag
First Shelterbelt
Flag of the Republic of Mexico
Flags Flown Over Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Fort Towson
Fort Towson
Frank and Katie Vrana
George Washington Elm Tree
Hackberry Flat
Hell's Half Acre
Henry Overholser
Historic Hadden Hall
Historic Markham Building
Hochatown
Huey Helicopter
Huey Helicopters: Workhorses of the War in Vietnam
In Memory of Robert Samuel Kerr
Indian Blanket Flower
Indians, Railroads, Ranchers & the Military
Initial Point
John L.R. "Pepper" Martin
Johnny Bench
Jones Plantation
Journal Record Building South Wall
Kaiser's Ice Cream Parlour
Katy Railroad
Kiamichi River
Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservation
Kunc 1889er Homestead
Lake Texoma
Leaping Into History
Liberty Bell Replica, 1950
Lloyd E. Rader Park
Lloyd James Waner
Luke and Anna Robison
Marcy's Survey of the Red River
Markham Motor Company
Military Land Becomes School Land
Milk Bottle Grocery
Miller County Controversy
Model 1861 3-Inch Ordnance Rifle
National Guard Armory
North Fork of the Red River
Oberlin
Oil and Gas Industry
Oklahoma City Bombing Children's Memorial
Oklahoma City Bombing Responders' Memorial
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Oklahoma City Oil Field
Oklahoma City Oil Field
Oklahoma Governor's Mansion
Oklahoma Publishing Company
Oklahoma Publishing Company
Oklahoma State Capitol and The Guardian
Oklahoma State Seal
Oklahoma Timeline
Oklahoma's Elusive Southern Border
Oklahoma's Gold Rush
Oklahoma's Medal of Honor Recipients
Oklahoma's Oil Pioneers
Old Greer County
OU College of Allied Health
OU College of Nursing
OU College of Pharmacy
OU College of Public Health
OU Health Sciences Center
Paul Glee Waner
Paul McCartney
Payne Boomer Campsite
Prominent Land Cases
Ray Ackerman Dancing Fountains
Red River Rivalry
Rescuer Orchard
Rock of Ages
Route 66
Royal Flag of France
Royal Standard of Spain
Run of '89 East Boundary
San Bernardo
Saurophaganax Maximus
Seal of Oklahoma
Second Flag of the Republic of Texas
Second National United States Flag
Service Center Building
Settling the Conflicting Surveys
Shannon Miller Park
South Entry
South Oklahoma
St. Paul's Cathedral
Standard of the Empire of Spain
Standard of the French Republic
Stanton L. Young Walk
State of Sequoyah
Statue of Liberty Replica
Steamboat Heroine
Steamboat Heroine
Stephenson Park
Stockyards City
Stockyards City
Surveys of the 100th Meridian
Survivor Tree
Survivor Tree
T.M. Richardson and the Oklahoma Bank
Team 5 Requiem
Team Effort
Temple B'Nai Israel
Texas Road
The Boomers
The Building of Oklahoma City
The Chisholm Trail
The Choctaw Road
The Citizens' Committee
The Election of May 1, 1889
The Field of Empty Chairs
The Great Raft
The Land Run
The Land Run
The Land Run of 1889
The Meinders Foundation Heritage Gardens
The New Framework of Government
The Oklahoma Territory Organic Act
The Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center
The Playground
The Red River
The Red River Heritage Garden
The Resignation of Mayor William L. Couch
The Robert M. Bird Library and OU Graduate College
The Rock Island Plow Building
The Unassigned Lands
Third National United States Flag
Trail of Tears
Tribute to Range Riders
Tuton's Drugstore
Unconquered
Union Flag
Union Soldier Cemetery
Veterans Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial in Oklahoma City
Visit of the Congressmen
W.C. Austin Project
Warren's Trading Post
Washington Irving's Camp
Washington Irving's Camp
Washita River
Welcome to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Wells Fargo Livery Stable
Wilber Joe Rogan
William B. Tietgens
"Alfalfa Bill" Murray's Red River Bridge War
"Any Army aviator or crew member..."
In the 19th century, Oklahoma County became a part of the Indian Territory, a designated land for Native American tribes that had been forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States. The arrival of European settlers during the Land Run of 1889 and the subsequent creation of the Oklahoma Territory marked a significant turning point in the history of the county.
During the early 20th century, Oklahoma County experienced rapid growth and development. The discovery of oil in the region during the 1920s led to an economic boom, attracting thousands of people to the area in search of employment opportunities. The county's population increased rapidly, and urbanization became more prevalent. The city of Oklahoma City, which is located within Oklahoma County, emerged as the capital of the state.
Despite the economic prosperity of the 1920s, Oklahoma County, like the rest of the country, was severely affected by the Great Depression. The oil industry suffered, leading to widespread unemployment and financial hardship. However, the county slowly recovered, and in the post-World War II era, it experienced a period of steady growth and modernization.
Today, Oklahoma County continues to be a dynamic and diverse region, both economically and culturally. It is home to a variety of industries, including energy, aerospace, and healthcare. The county also boasts numerous cultural and recreational attractions, such as the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the vibrant Bricktown district, and the Oklahoma City Zoo. As the most populous county in the state, Oklahoma County remains an important center for commerce, education, and entertainment in Oklahoma.
Brief timeline of the history of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma:
- 1830s - Oklahoma County originally inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Plains Apache and Caddo
- 1889 - Land Run of 1889 opens Oklahoma Territory for settlement, prompting the establishment of Oklahoma County
- 1893 - First courthouse constructed in Oklahoma County
- 1904 - Statehood for Oklahoma, making Oklahoma County an official county within the state
- 1930s - During the Great Depression, Oklahoma County experiences economic challenges
- 1950s - Suburban growth and expansion in Oklahoma County
- 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing, a terrorist attack in downtown Oklahoma City, affects the county and the nation
- 2000s - Ongoing development, population growth, and urbanization in Oklahoma County
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.