Shawnee, Oklahoma Shawnee, Oklahoma Shawnee City Hall, December 2016 Shawnee City Hall, December 2016 Location of Shawnee, Oklahoma Location of Shawnee, Oklahoma Shawnee, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Shawnee, Oklahoma - Shawnee, Oklahoma Shawnee is a town/city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
The populace was 31,543 in 2014, a 4.9 percent increase from 28,692 at the 2000 census. The town/city is part of the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area; it is also the governmental center of county of Pottawatomie County and the principal town/city of the Shawnee Micropolitan Statistical Area.
With access to Interstate 40, Shawnee is about 45 minutes east of the attractions in downtown Oklahoma City.
The region surrounding Shawnee was settled after the American Civil War by a number of tribes that the federal government had removed to Indian Territory.
The Sac and Fox originally were deeded territory in the immediate region but were soon followed by the Kickapoo, Shawnee, and Pottawatomi Indians.
Over the course of the 1870s, Texas cattle drovers pushed their herds athwart Indian Territory; there were four primary trails, with the West Shawnee trail crossing near present-day Kickapoo and Main streets.
By 1876 a postal service and trading post had been established a quarter mile west of the mission at what became known as Shawnee Town.
Then in the Land Run of 1891 onto surplus territory of the Sac & Fox, Citizen Pottawatomie and Shawnee, just east of the initial run, was opened for settlement.
They titled the town Shawnee after the tribe that had been living there. A second run, onto the Kickapoo Land to the west of the original, was held in 1895, adding more acerage added to Pottawtomie County The road was assembled through his farm, and the City of Shawnee was established on July 4, 1895.
Located in the heart of cotton, potato, and peach country, Shawnee quickly became an agricultural center.
Between March 1901 and March 1902, 375 barns cars of cotton product were shipped out of Shawnee, along with 150,000 bales of cotton.
Its first building, Shawnee Hall, was t from the people.
Gregory's University) relocated to Shawnee from Sacred Heart in 1915, where it had been associated with a Catholic mission and school.
In 1930, voters propel to move the governmental center of county of Pottawatomie County from Tecumseh to Shawnee.
Downtown Shawnee is an excellent example of many Main Street communities that emerged in the late 19th century as part of the westward movement.
Choosing not to organize its activeness around a central square, as did many suburbs in New England, the South, and upper-Midwest, Shawnee represents a distinct ly model of urban development.
Depending on barns lines for its economic health, Shawnee's Main Street became the focal point for commercial, manufacturing, and entertainment activeness beginning in 1895, four years after the region was opened for European-American settlement when authorities staged a territory run.
Competing with Oklahoma City as the core of central Oklahoma, Shawnee advanced a broad base of economic activity.
The setbacks resulted in Shawnee being a small town/city assembled with services and retail advanced around the activeness of Main Street.
Shawnee's primary employer was the Rock Island Railroad, which had positioned its chief southwestern repair shops in the town/city in 1896.
The Shawnee Flouring Mill, long integral to the city, still dominates the horizon of downtown.
The buildup of trade and the armed forces for the Second World War, and in particular the assembly of Tinker Air Force Base east of Oklahoma City, benefited Shawnee's economy.
After the war, three primary manufacturing concerns were meaningful to Shawnee's economy.
The Shawnee Milling Company, which had rebuilt after fires in 1934 and 1954, employs nearly 300 workers.
Nucholls established the factory to meet the needs of the overwhelming populace working for the barns s in the early days of Shawnee.
Shawnee's first sky scraper, the Hilton Phillips Hotel, later known as the Aldridge, was assembled in 1928 at the peak of the richness and expansion generated by the petroleum boom of the 1920s.
Downtown Shawnee has lost many buildings of historical value, but still retains a momentous number of resources.
Main in Shawnee is a unique barns depot made of limestone blocks two to three-feet deep.
After operations of the Santa Fe Railroad ceased in 1977 the City of Shawnee took over the depot property.
It contains various historical artifacts from the settlement of Shawnee, and also contains barns memorabilia and t shop.
Located midway between Shawnee and Tecumseh, Benson Park served the recreational needs of Shawnee inhabitants for about 20 years.
In 1907 Oklahoma was admitted as a state and 8,024 citizens voted that the governmental center of county moved to Shawnee while 5,027 wanted it to remain in Tecumseh.
The case was appealed and the higher courts decided bribery might have figured into the election since Shawnee had offered use of property in Woodland Park as a site for the county court home.
Shawnee won the necessary two-thirds majority by a 90-vote margin.
Until the mid-30's county officers contracted company in downtown Shawnee buildings.
Roosevelt's New Deal helped fund assembly of a new county courthouse in Shawnee which was assembled in Woodland Park.
Shawnee is positioned at 35 20 33 N 96 56 2 W (35.3425, -96.9338). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 44.7 square miles (116 km2).About 42.3 square miles (110 km2) of it is territory and 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) of it (5.37%) is water.
The town/city was also chosen by the framers of OBU in part because two Baptist Conventions (one in Indian Territory and one in Oklahoma Territory) had consolidated in the reconstructionof Oklahoma being admitted as a state to the Union.
The town/city of Shawnee was considered neutral territory (Shawnee had been neither in Indian Territory nor Oklahoma Territory, but was inside the boundaries of the Potawatomi Nation).
Shawnee Public Schools Shawnee Public Schools operates preschool through twelfth grades.
Shawnee High School-1001 N.
Shawnee Middle School-4300 N.
Shawnee Early Childhood Center-1831 N.
In 2016 the people of Shawnee passed a bond copy to build a new elementary school on the north side of town, which continues to grow.
Dependent School Districts Shawnee also has four dependent school districts International Finals Youth Rodeo in Shawnee, Oklahoma The Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the ninth biggest Native American tribe in the United States with 26,000 members, is headquartered between Shawnee and Tecumseh.
Shawnee was one of the hot spots in the state for aviation and was host to a visit from Amelia Earhart in 1931.
City fathers went to Washington to offer Shawnee as a site for one of the many military training basis which would be needed as the nation headed into World War II.
Meanwhile, the people of Shawnee overwhelmingly passed a bond copy for $200,000 to match the $285,000 allocated by the federal government to build a small-town base.
The Shawnee Municipal Airport was moved to a site north of town.
First plans for the base was to be an auxiliary extension for the base at Norman but later was titled as Shawnee Naval Air Station, a school for navigators.
Shawnee's NAS was put in caretaker status and the equipment was sold off as surplus, much of it going to the City of Shawnee and it's people.
The Shawnee Municipal Airport was returned to its initial site in 1946 where it remains today. Shawnee Regional Airport Main Terminal On August 29, 2011, the City of Shawnee opened a new terminal building replacing the terminal assembled in the 1950s.
Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin was the featured speaker amid the official opening praising Shawnee officials for their determination in getting the universal started, funded and instead of led by former Shawnee Mayor Chuck Mills.
The Aeronautics Commission also provided a $275,000 state grant to help in the assembly costs, while the City of Shawnee paid for the remaining amount.
From 2008 to 2011, the Shawnee Regional Airport received nearly $8 million in state and federal grants for various runway and taxiway improvements. A plaque at the bridge states: "Shawnee Nikaho/Bridge of Understanding/is dedicated to the memory of Mayor Pierre Taron/a strong proponent of Sister Cities.
The roof is wood shingled and colorful flowers are planted around the outside of the gazebo which is dedicated to the Sister Cities International program between Shawnee and Nikaho, Japan.
In 1987, a Japanese manufacturing company, TDK, opened a factory in Shawnee which locally manufactures ferrite magnets for electronic motors.
Taron, Jr., sought to establish a Sister City relationship between Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Located between Shawnee and Tecumseh.
There are three theatre programs in Shawnee, each which organize a season worth of performance including Shawnee Little Theater and programs at St.
The City of Shawnee maintains Shawnee Twin Lakes, which are positioned the west of the city.
Shawnee has various small parks inside the city.
Red Bud Park positioned at the intersection of Beard and Dill streets was constructed after the devastating flood of Shawnee Creek that ran through the region it 1928.
The Brooklyn Dodgers provided Shawnee with a Class D minor league in the Sooner State League from 1950 to 1957.
Shawnee also hosted some primary leagues at Athletic Field (now called Memorial Park) in the 1930s.
The following year the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago White Sox also played a game in Shawnee.
At least 34 Major League Baseball players have connections to Shawnee, either by birth, or having played on a small-town team or lived in town at one time.
Shawnee High School has also had a colorful sports history.
The high school provides excellent facilities with Jim Thorpe Stadium, Memorial Park, softball field and the Shawnee Performing Arts Center combo which includes a state-of-the art gym.
Shawnee offers youth sports of all range either through the YMCA or the Shawnee Sports Association.
Shawnee briefly hosted the Shawnee Warriors, a semi-pro football team that competed in the Oklahoma Metro Football League competing as the Millers, affiliated with the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz, a minor league pro arena team that season.
Jack Baer, sports star and graduate of Shawnee High School and OU, Sooners baseball coach winning Nat'l championship in 1951 Joe Frank Cobb, born in Shawnee, actor, initial "fat boy" in the early "Our Gang" series Vinita Giles Cravens, born in and attended school Shawnee, Oklahoma's greatest stage, theater, musical entrepreneur in mid-1900s Louise Funk Fluke, interval up in Shawnee, graduated SHS, designed flag for state of Oklahoma, chosen in a contest in 1925 to replace initial Ryan Franklin pro baseball pitcher with Mariners, Phillies, Reds, Cardinals, wife from Shawnee, makes home in Shawnee Kim Henry, First Lady of Oklahoma 2003-11 (wife of Brad Henry); teacher at Shawnee High School Tim Holt, actor, died in Shawnee Medical Center Hospital Zack Mosley graduate of Shawnee High School, author "Smilin' Jack" aviation cartoon strip, developer of Civil Air Patrol Burton Rascoe, attended Shawnee High School, author, columnist, critic biography "Before I Forget", details life burgeoning up in Shawnee Smith, Sr., restaurateur, developer of Sonic Drive-ins, opened first one in his hometown of Shawnee in 1959 Jim Thorpe Olympian, pro football, baseball, basketball player, titled Athlete of Century, born easterly edge of Pottawatomie Co., called Shawnee his hometown Enumeration - Viewer: Population of the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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