Sapulpa Historical Society

This Week in Sapulpa History: Heating Up at the Glass Plant

February 8, 2024

The Bartlett Collins Glass Plant opened in 1915, but it wasn’t long before upset employees…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Impressed with the Empress Theatre

February 1, 2024

This week in Sapulpa History, the Empress Theatre brought to life a William Shakespeare classic…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Historic Landmark Preserved

January 27, 2024

Learn more about where Sapulpa is buried, and who the family members are buried with…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Sapulpa’s Grand St. James

January 10, 2024

Billed as “modern and first-class in every details,” the St. James Hotel stood for well…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Early Days of Sapulpa Schools

January 5, 2024

This week in Sapulpa History, a new school board met and found that a single…

This Week in Sapulpa History – Major Meyer and Mize Fire

December 29, 2023

This week in Sapulpa history, read the story about the mysterious blaze that took out…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Community Christmas

December 25, 2023

The story of how Sapulpa got its community Christmas Tree, which stood for 75 years…

This Week in Sapulpa History: Sapulpa’s hand-made glass

December 10, 2023

The relocation of Sunflower Glass Co. to Sapulpa would give the town four glass companies,…

Remembering Pearl Harbor: A collection of our most memorable stories about the “Day of Infamy”

December 7, 2023

On today, the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we look at some…

This Week in Sapulpa History: “Steel Demon Runs Wild”

December 3, 2023

In the 1910s Sapulpa was becoming famous as a railroad town and with a great…