1893 Oklahoma Land Run Museum | historical center Medford Oklahoma Kansas education

HISTORY OF THE 1893
HISTORICAL CENTER

In 1965, the Governor of Oklahoma requested that a historical society be formed in Grant County Oklahoma in preparation for the upcoming America’s Bicentennial Year. A set of by laws was written; officers were appointed and regular, life and sustaining memberships were sold. In 1968, the historical society founded the Grant County Historical Museum. They located it in the old Kennedy Drugstore Building located on the southeast corner of Main and Cherokee Streets, Medford, Oklahoma. They collected a building full of Cherokee Outlet Land Run pioneer artifacts and had over 10,000 visitors from many States and foreign

THE NEW
HISTORICAL CENTER

The 1893 Land Run new historical center will be constructed on the northwest corner of U. S. Highway 81 and Cherokee Street (east-west Main Street) in downtown Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma. It will be a quality red brick building matching the exterior décor of the old existing buildings along Cherokee Street. The building will be a modern long life structure designed with energy efficient standards and low maintenance.
The new center will be multi-functional, providing for youth and adult education by preserving and artfully displaying, in a modern museum type setting, the history of the development of the 8,389,120 acres of public lands in the Cherokee Outlet of Northern Oklahoma, the largest land run