Historical Marker Program

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The City of Norman and the Cleveland County Historical Museum

Cleveland County
Topics: Family/Household; Land Openings; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Constructed in 1895, six years after the 1889 Run, this house, known as the Harry Lindsey Home, has been restored as a classic example of pre-statehood architecture.

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The Jacobson House

Cleveland County
Location: 609 Chautauqua, Norman
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): The Jacobson Foundation
Topics: American Indians; Arts; Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Industrial Period, 1841–1892

The home of Swedish born artist Oscar B. Jacobson and Jeanne d'Ucel became a center for international celebrities, artists and writers from 1918–1966. Jacobson, director of the OU School of Art from 1915–1945, revolutionized art education in Oklahoma. He is also credited with nurturing the "renaissance" of American Indian painting on the Southern Plains in the 1920s.

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March of the Dragoons

Cleveland County
Location: on US-77 in Noble just south of Maguire Road
Topics: American Indians; Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Captain Nathan Boone, son of pioneer legend Daniel Boone, led 100 men and officers on an expedition to gather information about the Plains Indians. The 1843 expedition camped near this site.

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Norman’s Camp

Cleveland County
Location: on US-77, 1/2 mile north of intersection with OK-9
Topics: Government; Settlement Patterns; Transportation

This is the camp site of Abner Norman, a member of an 1873 survey party in Indian Territory. Members of his party burned "Norman's Camp" into a large elm at the site. The Norman Station was on the Santa Fe Railroad (1886–1889) and later the town of Norman took his name.

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Oklahoma’s Pioneer Oil City

Cleveland County
Topics: American Indians; Land Openings; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

On July 2, 1904, the Lowery #1 came in just south of Cleveland, opening the Cleveland Sand and creating Oklahoma's first oil boom town. Here also was Jordan's Fort, built in 1886 by Colonel J. W. Jordan, Cherokee agent and deputy US marshal, to keep Boomers out of the Cherokee Outlet.

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Washington Irving Campsite

Cleveland County
Location: on OK-9 in Little Axe Park ten miles east of Norman (DAR)
Coordinates: 35.231711, -97.207471
Material: Concrete with bronze plaque
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Arts; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Noted American author Washington Irving and his party camped near Norman on his tour of the prairies in 1832, giving the outside world its first glimpse at the land that would become Oklahoma.

Note: This marker was reported damaged.