FIRST -Religious Service - Enid, OK
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YoSam.
N 36° 23.739 W 097° 52.722
14S E 600554 N 4028417
On this corner is a marker for the land office that once stood here.
Waymark Code: WMNCA0
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2015
Views: 2
County of first: Garfield County
Location of first: Grand Ave. & Maine Ave., public library lawn, Enid
Mark erected by: St. Matthew's Church
Date mark erected: September 17, 1983
Marker Text:
On this spot at 10:00 A.M. on Sunday Sept. 17, 1893, the day after the opening of the Cherokee Strip to homeseekers, the Right Rev'd Francis Key Brooke, Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Oklahoma, conducted what is thought to be the first religious service in Enid. O.T. ~ He preached from a wagon to sixty people despite wind and swirling dust.
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