Did your family live in Oklahoma? Load your tree to see which of these places stand near where they lived. Try it with your own tree
Oklahoma's historical markers stand along the highways and at the sites themselves, cast under a program the Oklahoma Historical Society began with the Oklahoma Department of Highways after the Second World War and still runs today. Six hundred and fifty-one of them now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each placing the Society's own account of the marker on georeferenced maps from the eras it describes, and each linking back to the Society's own database entry. Most sit on the Society's own pin; where its database describes a marker's place in words but records no coordinate, the pin is ours, worked out from that description and marked approximate on the page. Where the Society records that a marker has moved, is damaged or no longer stands, its note is on the page too.
654 marker pages, on more than 83,000 historical map sheets. Oklahoma Historical Society, Historical Marker Program, credited on every page.
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 654 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Oklahoma, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Boley · under a mile from where the family lived in the 1890s · what this marker records spans 1889 to 1911, overlapping the family's years here
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; an Oklahoma family sees Oklahoma’s).
Browsing all 654 markers by county.
Scan: the Fort Towson marker page