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Cooweescoowee County
Rogers County is a County (United States), county located in the Green Country, northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 95,240, making it the sixth-most populous county in Oklahoma. The county seat is Claremore, Oklahoma, Claremore. Rogers County is included in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK Tulsa metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area. Created in 1907 from the western Saline District of the Cherokee Nation, this area was named the ''Cooweescoowee'' District, and Cooweescoowee County at the time of statehood. However, the residents protested, and the name was changed to Rogers County, after Clement V. Rogers, Clem Vann Rogers, a prominent Cherokee rancher, and father of Will Rogers.Thomas, Sarah C"Rogers County,"''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 5, 2015. History According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park
Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park consists of eleven objects and one building on 14 acres (57,000 m2) in Rogers County, Oklahoma, Rogers County, in northeastern Oklahoma. The park is north-east of Claremore, Oklahoma, Claremore and is located east of historic U.S. Route 66 in Oklahoma, U.S. Route 66 and Foyil, Oklahoma, Foyil. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1999. The park is now owned and operated by the Rogers County Historical Society. The park's main totem pole is billed as the "World’s Largest Concrete Totem Pole."Covington, Hannah"Childhood friends, artists bring color back to historic totem pole,"''Tulsa World'', 30 July 2015; Accessed 30 July 2015. History and creation The park was constructed by Ed Galloway (b. 1880 in Springfield, Missouri; d. 1961 in Foyil, Oklahoma). A United States Army, US Army veteran who had served in the Philippines, he began carving monumental sculptures from tree trunks when he returned to the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulsa Metropolitan Area
The Tulsa metropolitan area, officially defined as the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, metropolitan statistical area is a metropolis in northeastern Oklahoma centered around the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa and encompassing Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Rogers County, Oklahoma, Rogers, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, Wagoner, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Muskogee, Washington County, Oklahoma, Washington, Osage County, Oklahoma, Osage, Creek County, Oklahoma, Creek, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, Okmulgee and Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Pawnee counties. It had a population of 1,059,803 according to the 2024 U.S. census estimates. Counties The Tulsa metropolitan area (TMA) consists of the following counties, listed in descending order of population (2010 census): * Tulsa County * Rogers County * Wagoner County * Creek County * Osage County, Oklahoma, Osage County * Okmulgee County * Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Pawnee County * Muskogee County * Washington County, Oklahoma, Washington County O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremore Lake
Claremore Lake is a reservoir in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Constructed in 1929–1930 by damming Dog Creek for the purpose of providing water to the city of Claremore, Oklahoma Claremore is a city in and the county seat of Rogers County, Oklahoma, Rogers County in northeastern Oklahoma, United States. Its population was 19,580 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, a 5.4% increase over the 18,581 recorded in ... and houses recreational amenities such as boat ramps, fishing docks, and picnic areas. In 2011, the lake added a 9-hole disc golf course. The lake has a capacity of , covers Claremore Lake Park comprises off of East Blue Starr Drive in Claremore. The park has two separate playgrounds and has picnic tables and grills available for public use. There are also two covered shelters with electrical outlets. Shelters can be rented through the Claremore Parks and Recreation Department. Camping is not allowed, and animals must be restrained at all times. Alcoh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Military Academy
Rogers State University (RSU) is a public university in Claremore, Oklahoma, United States. It also has branch campuses in Bartlesville and Pryor Creek. History The institution that is now RSU has gone through several stages, from its foundation as a state-sponsored preparatory school to its transition to a military academy, and finally to its current incarnation as a four-year regional university. It has its roots in the Eastern University Preparatory School, which was founded in 1909. During the construction of the famous "Preparatory Hall", Eastern University Preparatory School held its classes in the old Claremont building until 1911. The institution was closed in 1917. In 1919 it was restarted as the Oklahoma Military Academy (OMA), to meet the growing educational and training needs of the United States armed forces. In 1923 it became a six-year program, providing a high school and junior college education. The school received an Army ROTC Honor School rating in 1932, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Territory
Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the Federal government of the United States, United States government for the relocation of Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans who held aboriginal title, original Indian title to their land as an independent nation. The concept of an Indian territory was an outcome of the U.S. federal government's 18th- and 19th-century policy of Indian removal. After the Indian Territory in the American Civil War, American Civil War (1861–1865), the policy of the U.S. government was one of Cultural assimilation of Native Americans#Americanization and assimilation (1857–1920), assimilation. Indian Territory later came to refer to an Territories of the United States#Formerly unorganized territories, unorganized territory whose general borders were initially set by the Nonintercourse Act of 1834, and was the successor to the remainder of the Missouri Territory a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdigris River
The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. Course The Verdigris is formed near Madison, Kansas, by the convergence of two short headwaters streams, its North and South forks, and flows generally southward throughout its course. South of Coffeyville, Kansas, the river enters Oklahoma. It joins the Arkansas River near Muskogee, Oklahoma, about a mile upstream of the mouth of the Neosho River. The area of convergence of the three rivers Arkansas, Verdigris and Neosho is called "Three Forks". History The river is mentioned in accounts by Zebulon Pike (1806) and Thomas Nuttall (1818). Fur traders had numerous posts along its route where they met with Native Americans to exchange goods for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand River (Oklahoma)
The Grand River is an alternate name for the lower section of the Neosho River, a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. "Grand River" refers to the section of river below the confluence of the Neosho and Spring rivers in Ottawa County near Miami. It empties into the Arkansas northeast of Muskogee, just downstream from the confluence of the Verdigris River The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map ... with the Arkansas. The area of convergence of the three rivers Arkansas, Verdigris and Neosho are called "Three Forks". The river is impounded by Grand Lake, Lake Hudson, and Fort Gibson Reservoir. The Grand River Dam Authority administers the river. References Grand River Dam Authority (accessed March 26, 2007) * Holway, W.R.br>"Dams on the Grand River" ''Chro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas River Valley. The headwaters derive from the snowpack in the Sawatch Range, Sawatch and Mosquito Range, Mosquito mountain ranges. It flows east into Kansas and finally through Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it meets the Mississippi River. At , it is the sixth-longest river in the United States, the second-longest tributary in the Mississippi–Missouri River, Missouri system, and the List of river systems by length, 47th longest river in the world. Its origin is in the Rocky Mountains in Lake County, Colorado, near Leadville, Colorado, Leadville. In 1859, Placer mining, placer gold discovered in the Leadville area brought thousands seeking to strike it rich, but the easily recovered placer gold was quickly exhausted. The Arkansa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osage Nation
The Osage Nation ( ) () is a Midwestern Native American nation of the Great Plains. The tribe began in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 1620 A.D along with other groups of its language family, then migrated west in the 17th century due to Iroquois incursions. The term "Osage" is a French version of the tribe's name, which can be roughly translated as "calm water". The Osage people refer to themselves in their Dhegihan Siouan language as (). By the early 19th century, the Osage had become the dominant power in the region, feared by neighboring tribes. The tribe controlled the area between the Missouri and Red rivers, the Ozarks to the east and the foothills of the Wichita Mountains to the south. They depended on nomadic buffalo hunting and agriculture. The 19th-century painter George Catlin described the Osage as "the tallest race of men in North America, either red or white skins; there being ... many of them six and a half, and others taller than seven f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Oklahoma History And Culture
The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma dedicated to promotion and preservation of Oklahoma's history and its people by collecting, interpreting, and disseminating knowledge and artifacts of Oklahoma. The mission of the OHS is to collect, preserve, and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma and its people. The society has the rare distinction of being both a Smithsonian Institution and National Archives and Records Administration affiliate. History The OHS was formed in May 1893, 14 years before Oklahoma became a state, by the Territorial Press Association. The initial function of the OHS was to collect and distribute newspapers published in Oklahoma Territory. The society was declared an agency of the territorial government in 1895, and it became an official state government agency when Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. The OHS is both a private, membership organization and an Oklahoma government agency. The OHS Boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
View Of Claremore With Rogers Tomb
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, it also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages – these included word processor ''VIEW'' and the spreadsheet ''ViewSheet'' supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. History Acornsoft was formed in late 1980 by Acorn Computers directors Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry, and David Johnson-Davies, author of the first game for a UK personal computer and of the official Acorn Atom manual "Atomic Theory and Practice". David Johnson-Davies was managing director and in early 1981 was joined by Tim Dobson, Programmer and Chris Jordan, Publications Editor. While some of their games were clones or remakes of popular arcade games (e.g. ''Hopper'' is a clone of Sega's ''Frogger'', '' Snapper' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
