First Public Schoolhouse in Oklahoma Territory

First Public Schoolhouse in Oklahoma Territory is an Oklahoma historical marker in Oklahoma County.

Oklahoma County · near southwest corner of intersection at Second Street and Boulevard in Edmond

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The first public school in Oklahoma Territory, located in Edmond, opened on September 16, 1889. The schoolhouse also hosted church meetings and the first recorded wedding in Oklahoma County. Preservation of the schoolhouse was one of the first official Oklahoma Centennial projects.

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Marker data: Oklahoma Historical Society, Historical Marker Program. Marker texts come from the Society's marker database, reproduced with the Society's written permission. Where the database describes a marker's location in words but records no coordinate, the pin on this page is ours, worked out from that description and marked approximate.
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