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Kingfisher-US Land Office

Kingfisher County
Location: on US-81 on grounds of Kingfisher post office
Material: Aluminum

From a land office at this location, the federal government prescribed rules and regulations governing the opening of the Unassigned Lands in central Oklahoma on April 22, 1889. The office also registered claims for the April 19, 1892, opening of Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.

Note: This marker could not be located and is presumed missing.

Land Office

Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35.877894, -97.426715
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Fogarty Jr. High School
Topics: Government; Land Openings; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

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.

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US Government Land Office

Logan County
Location: on South Second Street in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35.877667, -97.427500
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Topics: Government; Land Openings; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

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.

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