State Seal Stolen

Logan County · at East Harrison Avenue and South Broad Street in Guthrie

This building was the state capitol when the state seal was stolen from here and taken to Oklahoma City, on the night of June 11, 1910, thus moving the site of the state capitol. The first university of Oklahoma was located here in 1892. It operated as such for two years.

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