Bake Oven
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First Commercial Long Distance Telephone Line in Oklahoma
Telephones in 1886
The first commercial long distance
telephone line in Oklahoma was
placed in service here in 1886.
It connected Fort Gibson with
Tahlequah and Muskogee. The line
was built by a company formed by a
group of Cherokees, namely: L.B. Bell,
J.S. Stapler, J.B. Stapler, C.W. Turner,
John S. Scott and E.D. Hicks.
The monument erected as a public
service by Southwestern Bell
telephone company.
telephone
Fort Davis
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Fort Gibson
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State's Earliest Oil Refinery
STATE'S EARLIEST OIL REFINERY
Muskogee Oil Refining Company, organized in March, 1905, built a "finishing plant" near this site in November, 1905. It soon was producing lamp kerosene, lubricating oil and industrial fuel -- the beginning of oil refining in Oklahoma, a leading industry today.
Oklahoma Historical Society and
State Highway Commission 1965
oil oil field petroleum refinery
Union Agency
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USS Batfish / War Memorial Park and Museum
Muskogee War Memorial and home of the USS Batfish.
museum park submarine wwii


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