Historical Marker Program

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Delmar Garden

Oklahoma County
Location: on West Reno Avenue and South Western Avenue near the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City
Material: Granite
Topics: Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Folklife; Recreational/Service; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Once reportedly the largest amusement park west of the Mississippi River, Delmar Garden occupied 140 acres along the North Canadian River. The magnificent park, which boasted an outdoor theater, beer garden, dance hall, swimming pool, baseball park, and race track, opened barely a dozen years after Oklahoma City was carved out of a prairie. The park operated from 1902 to 1910 when a mosquito epidemic caused by high water closed the park. Apache Chief Geronimo once signed autographs here.