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Some Firsts in Lincoln County (open access)

Some Firsts in Lincoln County

Article traces the history of Lincoln County and its leaders and inhabitants. Hobart D. Ragland discusses some of the first buildings constructed in the county, which included the Sac and Fox Agency and the Wellston Trading Post.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The National Register of Historic Places and St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery: The 1,000th Listing in Oklahoma (open access)

The National Register of Historic Places and St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery: The 1,000th Listing in Oklahoma

Article explains the process of listing properties on the National Register of Historic Places, then describes the history of the St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery in Lincoln County—the 1,000th Oklahoma property on the National Register of Historical Places.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Savage, Cynthia
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma (open access)

Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma

Article explores the relationship between ethnicity and political power through the person of Frank Vlasak, a Bohemian-born farmer and businessman in early Prague, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Smith, Philip D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memoirs of Oklahoma (open access)

Memoirs of Oklahoma

Article includes the memoires of Kittie M. Harvey, a pioneer woman who moved to Oklahoma Territory with her family and became a music teacher and helped run the small post office in Chandler. Harvey discusses life there and in Oklahoma City, and the people she and her husband Will Harvey interacted with.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Harvey, Kittie M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians (open access)

"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians

Article describes the history of government relations with the Sac and Foxes, the establishment of the Sac and Fox Agency, and the history of the "Only Way" church attended by the author.
Date: Winter 1965
Creator: House, R. Morton
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Only Show in Town: Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher's Savoy Theatre (open access)

The Only Show in Town: Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher's Savoy Theatre

Article illustrates the life of Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher, a prominent businesswoman of Prague, Oklahoma. Mohrbacher's successes running the Savoy Theatre and high standards she upheld for the films shown there are chronicled here.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Pieroth, Doris Hinson
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History