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Final opportunities to ride in a 100-year-old vintage car this summer at The Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum

July 30, 2024

Currently, guests can ride in a 1923 Packard and drive to Pretty Water Lake. A driver…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Yale Theatre

July 27, 2024

Seventy years ago this week in Sapulpa, we lost one of our downtown theaters: the…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Building and Expanding in the New Decade

July 20, 2024

The 1960s in Sapulpa had not only buildings being torn down but buildings were being…

Sapulpa could gain jobs and business with new industrial park on Route 66

July 17, 2024

Sapulpa received $6.3 million in funding through grants from the SITES program which the Department…

This Week in Sapulpa History: A Reel-y Big Fire

July 7, 2024

One of the more significant fires in downtown Sapulpa happened today in 1952, when the…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Busy July 1906

June 28, 2024

As Sapulpa went from June into July in 1906, the town was seeing a surge…

“A show that everyone needs to see:” Sapulpa Community Theatre’s new “Leaving Iowa” is a hit

June 25, 2024

Stories of family road trips from a bygone era, combined with a family dynamic that…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Frankoma Opens in Sapulpa

June 22, 2024

How do you define “Frankoma?” More than the pottery, more than the man who created…

Prescription drugs on an orange background with a pill bottle. Orange pills.

Creek County awarded $300K in Opiod Abatement Grant

June 18, 2024

The funding will enable the employment of personnel who will implement a comprehensive multi-level approach…

This Week in Sapulpa History – County Road, Infamous Highway

June 6, 2024

This week in history, Sapulpa’s Lowdermilk Road—later part of the Ozark Trail and Route 66,…