Gloss Mountains - Fairview, Oklahoma
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member gparkes
N 36° 21.779 W 098° 34.744
14S E 537763 N 4024292
This marker can be found inside the Gloss Mountain State Park. It is down a short cement walking path.
Waymark Code: WM7Y8B
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/21/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
Views: 11

Marker text states:

Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains

In February 1873 the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the federal general land office. Two years later the same office issued another map calling them the Gloss Mountains. Thus precipitating a conflict that continues to this day.

The 1875 map resulted from a survey led by an engineer named T.H. Barrett. Historiographer James Cloud is of the opinion that a draftsman copied this map and misread the "A" for an "O". A persistent legend exists that a member of that first exploring party was British or Bostonian.

This member awakened early one morning in the survey camp on the knoll located east of this point and saw the sun on the glistening clear crystals of selenite. In his long Eastern dialect he exclaimed. "Why, they look just like glaws."

The party's cartographer simply recorded what he thought he had heard, indeed a passing error.

Gloss Mountain Conservancy, Inc.

County: Major County

Record Address::
US 412
Fairview, OK USA
73737


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Sponsor (Who put it there): Gloss Mountain Conservancy, Inc.

Date Erected: Not listed

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