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Blue Bell Bar
Logan County
Location: at Harrison Avenue and Second Street in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'37.725 97°25'38.265
Material: Aluminum
This was one of Guthrie's most popular saloons during territorial days. Cowboy star Tom Mix was a bartender at the Blue Bell before he left for Hollywood. The original frame building was replaced by the present brick structure in 1903.

Bonfils Building
Logan County
Location: at 107 South Second Street in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'40.594 97°25'36.845
Material: Aluminum
F. C. Bonfils ran his real estate business from an office in the first floor of this building and lived on the second floor. Bonfils, a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, was considered a con man in his early years. However, he later moved to Denver, Colorado, and co-founded the Denver Post newspaper.

Brooks Opera House
Logan County
Location: at Harrison Avenue and Wentz Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'37.405 97°25'28.545
Material: Aluminum
Constructed in 1899 by owner/manager James B. Brooks, this three-story limestone opera house seated 1,100 and contained ten finely appointed private boxes. It was furnished with folding upholstered chairs, steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water, and other amenities. The adjacent Hotel Royal contained 80 guest rooms. On November 16, 1907, Governor Charles Haskell took the oath of office as the state of Oklahoma's first governor in room 47 of the hotel. Later that day, he was sworn in again in a public ceremony on the steps of the Carnegie Library.

Carnegie Library
Logan County
Location: at 402 East Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'41.569 97°25'15.948
Material: Aluminum
Constructed in 1902 with a $25,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, this restored building is now connected to the Oklahoma Territorial Museum. The last territorial governor and the first state governor took their oaths of office here. The mock wedding symbolizing the joining of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as the state of Oklahoma took place on the library steps on November 16, 1907.

Constitutional Convention
Logan County
Location: inside City Hall, 101 North Second, Guthrie (DAR)
Coordinates: 35 52'41.386 97 25'39.722
Sponsored by: Daughters of the American Revolution
Oklahoma's Constitutional Convention was held in 1906 and 1907 in the old City Hall at this site.

De Steiguer Building
Logan County
Location: at Division Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'41.191 97°25'29.206
Material: Aluminum
Built in 1890 by the De Steiguer brothers, banking pioneers, this building was actually two buildings, constructed to look as one. This building is one of few historic downtown structures with a faÃ§ade of Oklahoma native red sandstone.

DeFord Building
Logan County
Location: at 116 South Second Street in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'38.947 97°25'38.688
Material: Aluminum
Possibly the gem of Joseph Foucart's architecture in downtown Guthrie, this building was completed in 1890. Irwin S. DeFord, the original owner, lived upstairs. In 1981, the building was given to the Logan County Historical Society.

First Townsite of Marshall
Logan County
Location: on OK-74E in Marshall
Material: Aluminum
The town of Marshall began at the site of the Crossroads store on the claim of Sylvan T. Rice. The post office was established on March 1, 1890. The new townsite was occupied in 1894.

Foucart Building
Logan County
Location: at Harrison Avenue and Division Street in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'36.752 97°25'34.149
Material: Aluminum
Built in 1891, the structure housed many retail businesses and offices, including the office of building architect Joseph Foucart.

Free Masonry
Logan County
Location: at Broad Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'37.651" 97°25'21.223
Material: Aluminum
The cornerstone for Oklahoma's first Scottish Rite Masonic Temple was laid here on October 4, 1899. The building served Masons until a new edifice was constructed at 900 East Oklahoma Avenue in 1920. The old building was razed in 1956.

Guthrie
Logan County
Location: on US-77 in south Guthrie
Guthrie was the capital of Oklahoma Territory and first capital of the state of Oklahoma, named in honor of Kansas Judge John Guthrie. The town's first post office opened on April 4, 1889. Guthrie was a station on the Santa Fe Railroad before the run of April 22, 1889. The constitutional convention was held here, and Charles Haskell, the state's first governor, was inaugurated here on November 16, 1907.

Guthrie City Hall
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'41.386 97°25'39.722
Material: Aluminum
The cornerstone for the Guthrie City Hall building was laid on April 9, 1902. The second floor of the structure was used for Oklahoma's Constitutional Convention beginning in November 1906. The city hall was razed in 1955, and a new building was constructed.

Guthrie Daily Leader
Logan County
Location: at Division Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'36.899 97°25'33.079
Material: Aluminum
Built in 1891, the building became home to the Guthrie Daily Leader three years later. The paper was the prominent Democratic newspaper in Oklahoma Territory. The structure was completely remodeled in 1976.

Guthrie National Bank
Logan County
Location: at First Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'41.199 97°25'36.063
Material: Aluminum
The bank was the first brick structure built in what would become Oklahoma Territory. Completed in the summer of 1889, the building housed the grand reception for a visiting congressional delegation in September of that year. In 1923, the present building replaced the original structure. The Guthrie National Bank was the first national bank chartered in either of the twin territories.

Indian Meridian
Logan County
Location: at center of crossroads just beyond the east border of the Langston townsite (intersection of Logan Road and Washington Avenue)
Coordinates: 35°56'31.581 97°14'49.531
Material: Stone

International Building
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'37.162 97°25'38.526
Material: Aluminum
This building housed numerous retail establishments when it was erected in 1890. Barber F.E. Knowlton developed his famous Danderine Hair Tonic here. The building was razed in the 1960s.

Land Office
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'40.418 97°25'36.175
Material: Aluminum
On this site stood the federal government's land office where each of the 20,000 persons making the Land Run of 1889 had to appear and file his claim. This was also the site of the first post office in Oklahoma Territory.

Langston
Logan County
Location: in city of Langston
Langston is one of thirteen All-Black towns, out of more than fifty that once existed, remaining in Oklahoma. While Tullahassee is reportedly the oldest, most were established between 1889 and 1907 as African Americans sought security and control of their own destiny in a segregated world. Most of the towns began to decline in the 1920s and 1930s as rural African Americans faced economic hardships and began to move to urban areas. Langston was organized in 1890 by E. P. McCabe, who also boosted Oklahoma as an All-Black state. It takes its name from John M. Langston, a well-known educator and member of Congress. Langston became home to the Colored Agricultural and Normal University (Langston University) in 1897.

Lovell
Logan County
Location: nine miles north and west of Crescent, twenty-three miles north and west of Guthrie
The Lovell Christian Church was built by area families on this site donated by the J. W. Lovell Family. The first trustees were C. J. Gragg, G. I. Pollard and W. B. Young. The church was chartered in May 1911 and dedicated on July 11, 1911, with 200 in attendance. Pastors were primarily ministerial students from Phillips University Seminary (Enid, OK). The church was closed in 1971. 50-, 60- and 90-year anniversaries of the church were celebrated in 1961, 1971, and 2001. The Town of Lovell was originally named Perth (US Post Office established in May 1889). A nearby hamlet, Standard, merged with Perth in 1902 after a Santa Fe Railroad was built nearby. The Post Office name was changed from Perth to Lovell in February 1906 after James W. Lovell platted sites on his land for town expansion.

Mineral Wells Park
Logan County
Location: in Mineral Wells Park on south edge of Guthrie (DAR)
Coordinates: 35°52'08.610 97°25'33.181
Sponsored by: Daughters of the American Revolution
Originally called Island Park, this site received its name from the different waters developed there that reportedly had healing benefits. A huge picnic was held in the park after Oklahoma officially became the 46th state of the Union on November 16, 1907. It also was a favorite camp site for large civic and family groups.

Mulhall
Logan County
Location: on US-77 in Mulhall
Material: Aluminum
The post office of Alfred was established here in 1889. The town name was changed the following year to honor Zack Mulhall, an area rancher who also started his own Wild West Show.

Oklahoma Building
Logan County
Location: at Division Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'41.247 97°25'30.561
Completed in 1901, this imposing structure was leased to Oklahoma Territory for office space for the final four territorial governors. A basement stable for horses and carriages was the forerunner of today's parking garages.

Oklahoma Daily State Capital
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35°52'36.848 97°25'39.187
This building, completed in 1902, housed Oklahoma Territory's first newspaper and the largest printing plant west of the Mississippi River. In 1975, the building was given to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Oklahoma Territorial Museum
Logan County
Location: at 402 East Oklahoma Street in Guthrie
Material: Aluminum
Portraying the vast panorama of the heritage of Oklahoma Territory, the museum is adjacent to the oldest Carnegie Library in the state. It was on this location that the last territorial governor, Frank Frantz, and the first state governor, Charles N. Haskell, were inaugurated. The structure is one of the best examples of territorial-era architecture

Post Office
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Dennis T. Flynn opened the Guthrie post office in a tent on April 23, 1889, the day after the famous run of 1889. With volunteer help, he handed out the mail. Within a few weeks, the post office was handling 3,000 letters and 1,000 newspapers daily.

Reeves Brothers Casino
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
This notorious gambling house opened in a tent on April 23, 1889. It was later housed in a frame building which gave way to a brick structure. For fifteen years, until prohibition at statehood, the casino never closed its doors, day or night.

Rough Riders
Logan County
Location: 1/2 block east of Hwy-77 on Harrison Street, Guthrie, on south side
Material: Aluminum

Roxana
Logan County
Location: on OK-51, one mile east of Kingfisher County line
Logan County's only boom town was established in 1927 when the No. 1 McCully gushed in as the first mile-deep well in the state. The town declined after a refinery fire in the early 1930s.

Run of '89 North Border
Logan County
Location: on US-77 at Logan-Noble county line, one mile north of Orlando
This east-west line notes the location of the north boundary of the Unassigned Lands which were opened for homesteading on April 22, 1889, comprising the major part of six present-day Oklahoma counties.

Same Old Moses Saloon
Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
This was one of the many open saloons that thrived in Guthrie before prohibition came with statehood. When prohibitionist Carry Nation threatened to wield her bar-breaking hatchet against the saloon, the owner posted a sign on the door, "All nations welcome except Carry."

Santa Fe Depot
Logan County
Location: at 409 West Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
The first Santa Fe depot was a small red frame building on the west side of the Santa Fe tracks. The Santa Fe was the only railway into Oklahoma Territory at the time of the 1889 land run. Twenty trains brought up to 1,500 land seekers into the station on the day before the run. The present two-story red brick station was completed in 1903.

Smith's Two-Story Privy
Logan County
Location: at Division Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Nathanial McKay was given the right in 1899 to build a two-story brick privy on his property. McKay, who became a Guthrie developer, made the privy accessible from the second floor of adjacent buildings.

US Government Land Office
Logan County
Location: on South Second Street in Guthrie
A frame building was erected here before the land run of 1889. Thousands of settlers wanting to claim free land were required to register here and at a similar office in Kingfisher.

Victor Building
Logan County
Location: on First Street and Harrison Avenue in Guthrie
When it was completed in 1893, the building was hailed as the finest commercial building in Guthrie. Its basement was connected to other downtown buildings by tunnel. The Joseph Foucart design was restored in the 1980s.

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