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Welcome to Okmulgee County. I am Jeff Smith, Coordinator for this County for OK Gen Web.
I just took over this County and noticed that there are quite many pages and
photos missing. I am in the process of trying to recover them. In
the mean time if you have some photos, stories, etc that you do not see posted
please notify me so that I can repost them to Okmulgee County for Researchers.
I do not live in Oklahoma, therefore
I am unable to do local research. Check
with the lookup Volunteers.
If you would like to contribute your
information to this page, please
email me
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Okmulgee County was home to one of Oklahoma's
early all-black towns, established under a separatist philosophy
espoused by Booker T. Washington. Wild Cat (or Wildcat), later known
as Grayson, was one of twenty five such towns established in Indian
Territory. According to the Muskogee Cemiter , there were approximately 1,000 inhabitants in
this thriving community as of 1905. 1 As with all of the black towns in Oklahoma, the
population dwindled over the years. There remain but 64 inhabitants
as of the 1994 estimated census.
Okmulgee and its neighboring counties
experienced an oil boom in the late 1910s and 1920s, swelling the
population of the county seat to the second largest in the state.
Many of Okmulgee's downtown area buildings date from this period. An
effort is underway to
preserve
this downtown architecture
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1
Tolson, Arthur L.,
The Black Oklahomans, A
History: 1541-1972
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Edwards printing Co., New Orleans, LA, 1972., pp. 102
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Adjacent counties
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Tulsa County (north)
Creek County (northwest) Okfuskee County (southwest) |
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Wagoner County (northeast) |
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