History

How the team at the Sapulpa Historical Society is ensuring that Sapulpa’s rich historical legacy lives on.

Just 18 months after the infamous Tulsa Race Riot, Sapulpa found themselves in the crosshairs of what could've been a replay of that fateful day in their hometown.

If you've never been able to visit the Sapulpa Historical Society Museum, take your chance this Thursday!

The book’s author is local writer Don Diehl who took on the project for the Sapulpa Historical Society. He said he had lots of help with the content but was unable to identify the four youngsters in the cover photo. But it does easily represent Sapulpa kids during the late 1940s.

The old Sapulpa Fire Station No. 2 building and the Taco Mayo were leveled by the weekend and by midweek most of the remains hauled away. The historic lot on the southwest corner of Mission and Dewey and the one immediate west are being prepared for construction of a new Sonic Drive-In restaurant. Larkin Bookkeeping…

Pauline (Polly) was born in Sapulpa in 1910 to Minnie Aldora Cue Page and Robert Lennard Page. Her parents met in 1896 when their families moved to this area and lived on adjoining farms five miles west of Sapulpa. During her high school years Polly was a cheerleader of the Pep Club named the "White…

This story on “Dixieland Park” is compiled from a couple of different articles -- one by the late James W. Hubbard for the Sapulpa Historical Society in a 1992 Sapulpa Herald story headlined: “Dixieland was a dream realized”; and the second by travel writer Jack D. Rittenhouse. We’re not sure in what publication that piece…