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The deadline to request absentee ballots by mail is approaching. Applications must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5 p.m. Monday, August 8th.
Read moreLiving in the past is a waste of your precious and limited resources of time and energy. Time and energy applied to the past is time and energy taken away from the present. Apply your resources to make progress toward your goals.
Read moreWe voted for Senator Lankford and are very proud of his convictions and beliefs. He is an elected official with courage and cannot be intimidated by the left-wing loons.
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An All-Black town, Lincoln City was located in Kingfisher County, seven miles east and two miles south of Dover. Between 1879 and 1882 African Americans left the South and sought political, economic, and social opportunities in northern and western states. By 1889 several thousand black families, recruited to Kansas by emigrant companies, had gathered to await the opportunity to compete for free homesteads in Oklahoma. On April 22, 1889, an unknown number made the land run from the north line of the Oklahoma District into the Unassigned Lands. Only about fifty families found and staked claims, primarily in the valley of the Cimarron River in present Kingfisher County. Three black towns resulted: Red Wing, Wanamaker, and Lincoln City.
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Pictured above is Donna Lipe, Halo volunteer. She has been helping at the shelter since the day she retired. Whatever is needed she will do! She recently painted this puppy quarantine building red, white and blue! She checks on the mamas and puppies twice a day to make sure they are all right. We appreciate Donna so much, if you see her, please thank her!
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As the clock struck high noon, the sound of bugles resonated at separate locations across the prairie. Horses sprang forward. Buggies and wagons lurched into motion. Dogs barked uncontrollably, and thousands of voices unleashed shouts of jubilation.
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On Saturday, August 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Oklahoma Historical Society is partnering with the Oklahoma Conference of Black Mayors to present the Oklahoma All-Black Towns State Conference, an event that will bring together the mayors of Oklahoma’s 13 All-Black towns. The conference is designed to encourage a network of state agencies to join with the mayors to share resources enabling them to collect, preserve and share their town histories.
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