Historical Marker Program

Carnegie Library

Logan County
Location: at 402 East Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35.878167, -97.421080
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Topics: Arts; Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Government; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

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.

Carnegie Library

Logan County
Location: outside main entrance of Oklahoma Territorial Museum in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35.878187, -97.420805
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Arts; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Celebrating our rich heritage of early literacy promotion by recognizing the oldest Carnegie Library in Oklahoma still in existence.