Washington Irving Campsite

Cleveland County · on OK-9 in Little Axe Park ten miles east of Norman

Noted American author Washington Irving and his party camped near Norman on his tour of the prairies in 1832, giving the outside world its first glimpse at the land that would become Oklahoma.

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