Historical Marker Program

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Bond of Friendship

Pawnee County
Location: in the town of Skedee
Material: Granite

Bond of Friendship. Welcome to Skedee.

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Cleveland

Pawnee County
Location: on US-64 at Triangle Oil and Historical Museum in Cleveland
Topics: Industry/Business; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Urban Development

The town of Cleveland became a boomtown in 1904 when oil was discovered nearby.

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Cleveland-Pioneer Oil City

Pawnee County
Location: on US-64 and OK-99 in Cleveland
Topics: American Indians; Natural Resources; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Urban Development

Cleveland, established in 1894, was named for President Grover Cleveland. It became an early boomtown after oil was discovered in the immediate vicinity and in nearby Osage County in the early twentieth century.

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Skedee Monument

Pawnee County
Location: in town of Skedee
Topics: American Indians; Folklife; Natural Resources; Petroleum; Social/Cultural

Likenesses of Osage Chief Bacon Rind and Colonel E. E. Walters commemorate the cooperation of two different cultures. For many years, Walters served as the public auctioneer for oil lease rights on 160-acre tracts of the Osage Reservation, the revenue from which was distributed to the more than 2,000 Osage headrights. The auctions were held under the "million-dollar elm.