Timeline of Tulsa, Oklahoma

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

19th century

Indian Territory, Eastern part of present-day Oklahoma.
  • 1826 – Creek Indians began to settle town of Tulasi after their expulsion from the Southeastern United States.
  • 1861 – Battle of Chusto-Talasah – Civil War skirmish to north of Tulsa
  • 1878 – First post office established at Perryman ranch.[1]
  • 1882 –
  • 1884 – Presbyterian church founded a mission day school that became the first public school after Tulsa was incorporated.
  • 1886 – First Methodist Episcopal Church organized in December in Tulsey Town, Creek Nation.[3]
  • 1893 – Indian Republican began publication as first newspaper.[4]
  • 1887 – Tulsa founded.[5]
  • 1896 – Town incorporated.[6]
  • 1898
    • Edward E. Calkins becomes first mayor.
    • Population reported as 1,100.
  • 1899
    • First mass said at Holy Family Church.[7]
    • Robert H. Hall built the first telephone system in Tulsa, serving 80 subscribers.
    • Presbyterian mission school closed permanently after 1898-99 session; building purchased by J. M. Hall and 3 other men and reopened as first public school, beginning Tulsa Public School system.[8]
  • 1900
    • Commercial Club of Tulsa formed.[9]
    • Population: 1,390.[5]

20th century

1900s-1940s

  • 1901 – Oil discovered at Red Fork, near Tulsa, starting oil boom.[2][6]
  • 1902 – Tulsa chartered as a city.[5]
  • 1903
    • Telephone system sold to Indian Territory Telephone Company.
    • Original 3-story Brady Hotel constructed.
    • George W. Mowbray, Sr. becomes Mayor of Tulsa (1903-4)
  • 1904
    • Tulsa annexed North Tulsa.[10]
    • First Tulsa bridge built across Arkansas River.
    • Pumping plant built to deliver Arkansas River water to consumers via piping system.[11]
    • Indian Territory Telephone Company bought by Pioneer Company
    • Accidental explosion destroyed Archer store, killed a customer and mortally wounded Jeff Archer.[12]
  • 1905
File:TulsaWorld1906.jpg
Tulsa World Publishing building in 1906
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Downtown Tulsa, looking east on 2nd Street from Main Street, 1908.
  • 1907
  • 1908
    • Commission form of government adopted.[5]
    • Orcutt Lake and Amusement Park, privately owned and developed, opened, advertised as Tulsa's first playground.[18]
A 1909 panoramic view of Tulsa
File:TulsaCityOffices1909.jpg
Tulsa City Hall in 1909
  • 1910
    • Tulsa County Court House built.[21]
    • Population: 18,182.[5]
    • Exchange National Bank founded after failure of Farmers' National Bank.[22]
    • Texaco builds first oil refinery in West Tulsa.
    • Oil & Gas Journal, oil industry trade journal, headquartered in Tulsa.
    • Area of city: 3.5 square miles.[23]
    • Hotel Brady annex and Tulsa Hotel were built.
  • 1913
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916 – Carnegie library opens, forerunner of the Tulsa Public Library system.[27]
  • 1917
    • Orcutt Lake Amusement Park closed and converted to Swan Lake residential area. Gus Orcutt sold his development to Tulsa developer, E. J. Brennan, who coined the name Swan Lake. Brennan donated the lake itself to the City of Tulsa as a public park.[28]
    • Tulsa Central High School construction completed
    • Tulsa Outrage occurs.
  • 1918
    • Morningside Hospital opened.[16]
    • Cosden Building constructed, considered first "skyscraper" in city.
File:Tulsa OK Map 1920.jpg
Map of Tulsa in 1920

1950s-1990s

Tulsa Performing Arts Center(PAC)

21st century

Tulsa's skyline from Central Park in 2008.
Exterior of Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

See also

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 204: "Tulsa"
  3. Misch, p. 40.
  4. "Tulsa Gal: Indian Republican Newspaper."
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  7. "Holy Family Cathedral School: Tulsa's First Catholic School.
  8. Debo, p. 79.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Douglas 1921.
  10. Tulsa Preservation Commission. "Urban Development (1901–1945)" Accessed May 5, 2011.
  11. 11.0 11.1 City of Tulsa. "Water Supply Lakes - Eucha and Spavinaw Watersheds."
  12. Debo. p. 73-74.
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  14. Glenn Pool Oil Field Educational Center. "History of the Oil Boom: The Ida E. Glenn Discovery." Retrieved May 6, 2014.
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  18. Debbie Jackson & Hilary Pittman, "Throwback Tulsa: Visitors still flock to Swan Lake, Tulsa's first playground," Tulsa World, June 18, 2015
  19. Field, Eugene. "Growing Together: West Tulsa." Retrieved May 6, 2014.
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Bibliography

Published in 20th century

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  • Angie Debo, Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital , 1943. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Nina Dunn, “Tulsa’s Magic Roots: An Early History of Tulsa,” (Okla. Book Pub. Co. 1979)
  • The Tulsa Historic Preservation Plan (Tulsa, Okla.: Tulsa Preservation Commission, 1992).
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Published in 21st century

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