FIRST Advocacy for Oklahoma Statehood - Purcell, OK
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N 35° 00.806 W 097° 21.667
14S E 649533 N 3875760
This monument documents Purcell, as the Birthplace of the State of Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WMJDVA
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2013
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Off the northeast corner of the McClain County Courthouse in Purcell, at the corner of N. 2nd Street and W. Washington Ave. a granite monument tells the story of Purcell being the Birthplace of the State of Oklahoma.
The Inter-Territory Statehood Convention met on September 30, 1893 and were the FIRST to advocate Statehood for the Oklahoma and Indian Territories. The monument reads:
The
Birthplace
of the
State
of
Oklahoma
Purcell
The Inter-territory Statehood Convention, the
first to advocate single Statehood for
Oklahoma and Indian Territories met on
September 30, 1893 in Purcell's Methodist
Episcopal Church, south at approximately
319 W. Washington, Delegates from both
Territories formulated and sent to Congress
Resolutions asking for admission to the
Union as one State. Thirteen years later such
efforts led to Statehood.
Erected by McClain County Historical Society
November 15, 1990
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