History
This Week in Sapulpa History – Sapulpan graduates without a single absence or tardy
Edith Alice Cooper became the first person in recorded Sapulpa history to attend school and not miss a single day. As it turns out, it was a characteristic that runs in the family!
This Week in Sapulpa History: Sapulpa Businesses and Schools Baseball Showdown
Most locals will know that baseball has been a part of Sapulpa's pastime since the town began. But it wasn't just the high schoolers getting baseball championships—local businesses had their own teams as well. Here's a story of the two champion teams crowned this week in 1916.
This Week in Sapulpa History: Heavy Hitters From Class of 1921
Over the last year, we have discussed the lives and careers of Denver Grigsby and Frances Hutt, later Frances Hutt Dewey. These two lived different lives, one in baseball and one in singing. One returned to live in Sapulpa, one would become a First Lady of New York and could have been First Lady of…
This Week in Sapulpa History: School Song Sings On
Often in yearbooks, there are more than just images of classmates, there are notes, letters, and signatures from friends and teachers; there are pages of calendar events of what happened that year at school. There are pages of history and acknowledgments of yesterdays. The 1932 and 1932 Sapulpa High School Yearbooks had all of those,…
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This Week in Sapulpa History – Helen Keller Delivers Her Lecture to a Big Audience
Learn more about how the famous Helen Keller overcame her disabilities, and what happened when she gave her lecture in Sapulpa, Oklahoma
This Week in Sapulpa History – Sapulpa’s Funeral Homes History
In this two-part story, learn how Sapulpa's funeral homes began, and how eventually, one of them would make national news!
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Spotlight on Sapulpa: Headlines for April 11th
Read about when "Oklahoma's most gifted songbird" came to Sapulpa, a new oil well being drilled in Kellyville, and more news from today in history.
Spotlight on Sapulpa: Headlines for April 6th
Today in 1949, J.C. Penney announced the opening of its Sapulpa store, to take place the following day. The store is now the home of the Tatanka Trading Post on E. Dewey Ave.
Spotlight on Sapulpa: Headlines for April 5th
Today in 1910, thirty of the most prominent citizens from the southwest part of Sapulpa made an appeal to the city council for the extension of water mains and sewer lines. See that and more in today's headlines in history.
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