Heart in the Park Timeline - 1879-2007- Tonkawa, OK
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This is a most unusual timeline located in Heart in the Park.
Waymark Code: WMW3GN
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2017
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On the east side of the downtown area on E. Grand, at 6th Street, is Heart int he Park. This was an Oklahoma Centennial project in 2007 and includes several memorials, pavers and a gazebo. The focus of the park is a masonry labyrinth shaped as a heart.
Around the edges of this heart, are one hundred concrete pavers, each documenting an event in the history of Tonkawa. This is a wonderful way to highlight these events in a way that citizens and visitors stop and take notice. The timeline is outdoors and available 24/7 at no cost.
The blocks read as follows:
1879-1885 Nez Perce relocation to Oakland Agency
1880 Yellow Bull Crossing toll on Salt Fork River
1885 Tonkawa tribe relocation June 30
1891 Tonkawa tribe individual lands allotment
1891 Indian Agency School / Martha Brewer teacher
1893 Cherokee Outlet September 16
1893 Town of Tonkawa settles in Oklahoma Territory
1894 Incorporation City of Tonkawa
Tonkawa founders - Eli V. Blake, W.W. Gregory
1894 Merritt Witter our 1st country doctor
1894 The People's Grocery - Charles H. Martindale, proprietor
1894 Post Office - Eli Blake, postmaster
1894 Tonkawa Chief newspaper - Tom Fry editor
1895 Jail built 1 week after town saloon's free beer night
1895 Tonkawa Men's Baseball Club ticket 25cents undefeated season
1895 Salt Fork bridge
1895 First city park became Ray See Park in 1950
1896 Chikaskia River bridge easier access to Ponca City
1896 1st telephone in Tonkawa was a pay phone in a drugstore
1896 Tonkawa public grade school North 7th
1898 IOOF Cemetery
1898 Bank of Tonkawa beginning capital of $26,000
1899 1st grain elevator
1899 Flour mill Tonkawa Milling Co.
1899-1986 Santa Fe Railroad
1900 1st brick building northwest corner 7th and Grand
1901 University preparatory school
Hon. James Wilkin 1847-1920 Founding father of UPS
1902 Central Hall first UPS building
1905 McCafferty Funeral Home
1906 Ice plant
1907 Oklahoma Statehood November 16
1911-1958 Tonkawa High School north 7th Street'
1914 Wilkin Hall burned UPS campus
1914-1918 World War I - 5 Tonkawa men died
1919 Brick streets
1920 Chamber of Commerce J. Morgan Bush President
1921 UPS became UPS-UJC
1922-1926 Three Sands Oil boom
1923 McKee Oil Well #45 state's most profitable well
1923-1949 Central Grade School
1923 Flood destroyed Salt Fork bridge and Smackover
1923 Tonkawa City Hall
1924-1988 Washington grade school
1924 Stricklen Hospital H.M. Stricklen M.D.
1924 American Legion Post No. 0071
1925 Masonic Lodge
1926 Williams Iron Works Clinton F. Williams Sr.
1926-1927 Eleanor Hays 1st Tonkawa High School Football Queen
1928-1982 Rock Island Railroad
1929 George Mills Last Tonkawa Indian Scout dies
1932 V.F.W. Post No. 1229
1932 Ernest Wetmore assembled first hammermill
1934 Cotton gin Tonkawa Gin Co.
1935-1937 WPA Projects library, armory, swimming pool
1939-1945 World War II 28 Tonkawa men died
1940 National Youth Admin. Radio School
1940's-1970's Tonkawa Jaycees and Roundup Club sponsor annual rodeo
1940's-1980's Drill Bit Re-tipping Capitol of the World
1942-1944 POW Camp - killing of Cpl. Kunze 1943
1942-1946 Tonkawa airport Fountain Road & Hwy. 77
1948 Farmers Co-op grain elevator
1950-1953 Korean War 3 Tonkawa men died
1950-1988 Lincoln grade school
1952 THS State Football Champs 1952-53, 1999, 2000, 2005
1955 First city Christmas tree 7th and Grand
1958 New Tonkawa High School
1959-1975 Vietnam War 5 Tonkawa men died
1965 NOJC becomes NOC
1968 Bunn Park
1969 R.D. Buck Museum NOC
1970 Nez Perce Cemetery reclaimed
1970 Ft. Oakland Residential Community Est.
1971 Alpha II Alcohol and Drug Rehab Center
1972 Tonkawa Historical Society
1974 Blackwell/Tonkawa airport
1974 Cales Apts. burn 2 Tonkawa firefighters died
1975 1st annual Tonkawa tribal pow-wow
1977 Gloria Langdon National Mother of the Year
1979 New Fire Department building
1979 NOC Lady Mavs National Basketball Champs
1981 Former Pres. Gerald Ford honorary member of Scout Troop 11
1988 Tonkawa Elementary School
1989 Panama Conflict 1 Tonkawa man dies
1991 Operation Desert Storm U.S. Conflict in Iraq
1994 Tonkawa Centennial Park
1995 I-35 Annexation
1996 Tonkawa Kay County's 1st Certified City
1997 McCarter Museum
1998 Joe Kreger Oklahoma Poet Laureate
1998 NASA studies sun from Cauchlin Farm
2000 Tonkawa Education Foundation
2000 Buccaneer Stadium expansion
2002 Major ice storm hit Tonkawa
2003 U.S. War in Iraq begins
2003 THS Boy's Basketball State Champions
2004 Paul Muegge J.F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award
2006 Henry Allen Community Center and Museum
2007 THS Boy's Track State Champions
2007 Heart in the Park
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