Couch Park - Stillwater, OK
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Max and 99
N 36° 06.504 W 097° 02.665
14S E 676021 N 3997742
Couch Park is at the SE side of the city of Stillwater
Waymark Code: WMZV45
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2019
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Couch Park is located on the east side of Perkins Rd. In the 1990's, Perkins Rd. became the city's dominant business street after manufacturing plants moved to the area.
Couch Park/Complex offers a multitude of recreational activities including: tennis, baseball fields, softball complex, a Senior Center, walking trails, picnic pavilions, and a large playground.
An interesting activity that is now a permanent part of Couch Park:
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visit link)
The text on the Couch Park sign at the north entrance reads:
City of Stillwater
Couch Park
Land & Water
Conservation Fund
Cooperative Project
BOR-DEPT of Interior
A little bit of information on Capt. Couch, from the OK History.org website:
Located at the junction of State Highways 51 and 177, sixty-five miles northeast of Oklahoma City and sixty-four miles west of Tulsa, Stillwater is the seat of Payne County. Town and county history formally began with the Boomer Movement. On December 8, 1884, Capt. William L. Couch led a caravan of Boomers across the Cherokee Outlet to a stream just inside the future Oklahoma Territory. As they settled in dugouts and tents, they called the stream the Still Water and their settlement Stillwater. Surrounded by the U.S. Cavalry and cut off from supplies, the Boomers returned to Kansas.