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Tulsa is home to a variety of colleges and universities, including: National American University - Tulsa campus [ 1] New York University - Tulsa Global Site [ 2] Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences - (Tulsa) Langston University - Tulsa campus. Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology (OSUIT Okmulgee)
History of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-most populous city in the United States. Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname "Oil Capital of the World" and played a major role as one ...
Area code. 918. Alsumawas a rural community between Tulsaand Broken Arrowin Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. Its post office opened in 1905, and was named Welcome, but was renamed Alsuma in 1906.[2] Another version states that the town was named for John Alsuma, a local merchant. [3][4]According to a long-time resident, the town was ...
Moving to Tulsa brought me closer to my family and restored a sustainable balance to my life that was evading me in California. However, ultimately it came down to a calculated financial move. To ...
Creek Council Oak in 2012. Courtesy W. R. Oswald. The Creek Council Oak Tree is a historic landmark which represents the founding of the modern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States by the Lochapoka [1] Tribal Town of the Creek Nation . The Creeks had been forced to leave their homeland in the southeastern United States [a] and travel to land ...
Spouse. Ollie B. Murphy. Andrew Jackson Smitherman (December 1883 - June 1961) was an American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist. Smitherman began his journalism career in 1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he wrote for the Muskogee Cimiter before founding the Muskogee Star in 1912. He later founded the Tulsa Star after moving to ...
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture.
Rodger Allen Randle (born October 26, 1943) is a retired American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served twice as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and was a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1972 to 1988. [1] He also served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1970-1972 and as mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma from ...