Historical Marker Program

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The City of Norman and the Cleveland County Historical Museum

Cleveland County
Location: 508 North Peters Avenue in Norman
Coordinates: 35.225647, -97.444612
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Cleveland County Historical Society
Topics: Family/Household; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Constructed in 1895, six years after the 1889 Land Run, this house, known as the Harry Lindsey Home, has been restored as a classic example of pre-statehood architecture.

Note: This marker has been replaced by the Moore-Lindsay Historic House Museum historical marker.

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East Boundary of Run of 1889 and Indian Treaty Line

Cleveland County
Location: on OK-9, approximately ten miles east of Norman
Coordinates: 35.195019, -97.247560
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Cleveland County Historical Society
Topics: Land Openings; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

From this site a portion of Indian Territory was opened to thousands of settlers in 1889. One year later Congress provided for local and territorial government. This site also marks the west boundary of Shawnee and Pottawatomie lands that were opened to settlement on September 22, 1891. The Cleveland County line was then extended 6 1/2 miles east.

Note: This marker no longer exists. The opening “of Shawnee and Pottawatomie lands” referred to the Sac and Fox Opening, or the opening of the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Shawnee, and Potawatomi reservations to settlers on September 22, 1891.

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March of the Dragoons

Cleveland County
Location: on US-77 in Noble just south of Maguire Road
Coordinates: 35.130033, -97.390217
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Cleveland County Historical Society
Topics: American Indians; Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Captain Nathan Boone, son of pioneer legend Daniel Boone, led 100 men and officers on an expedition to gather information about the Plains Indians. The 1843 expedition camped near this site.

Note: This marker no longer exists.

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Norman’s Camp

Cleveland County
Location: on US-77, 1/2 mile north of intersection with OK-9
Coordinates: 35.190456, -97.422713
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Cleveland County Historial Society
Topics: Government; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Transportation

This is the campsite of Abner Norman, a member of an 1873 survey party in Indian Territory. Members of his party burned "Norman's Camp" into a large elm at the site. The Norman Station was on the Santa Fe Railroad, and later the town of Norman took his name.

Note: This marker no longer exists.

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Oklahoma’s Pioneer Oil City

Cleveland County
Topics: American Indians; Land Openings; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

On July 2, 1904, the Lowery #1 came in just south of Cleveland, opening the Cleveland Sand and creating Oklahoma's first oil boom town. Here also was Jordan's Fort, built in 1886 by Colonel J. W. Jordan, Cherokee agent and deputy US marshal, to keep Boomers out of the Cherokee Outlet.

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Washington Irving Campsite

Cleveland County
Location: on OK-9 in Little Axe Park ten miles east of Norman
Coordinates: 35.231711, -97.207471
Material: Other (Concrete with bronze plaque)
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Arts; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Noted American author Washington Irving and his party camped near Norman on his tour of the prairies in 1832, giving the outside world its first glimpse at the land that would become Oklahoma.

Note: This marker was reported damaged.