Land Office

Logan County · at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie

On this site stood the federal government's land office where each of the 20,000 persons making the Land Run of 1889 had to appear and file his claim. This was also the site of the first post office in Oklahoma Territory.

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