Volume 9 , Issue 44

Indian & Oklahoma Territories To Renew Vows

The Oklahoma Territorial Museum (OTM) in Guthrie, Oklahoma unveiled several special exhibits to celebrate Oklahoma's Centennial this week, November 1, 2007.

One of those items was an embroidered silk gown worn at the inaugural ball on November 16, 1907, by Lillian Haskell, second wife of Oklahoma's first governor, Charles N. Haskell.

There is also a twenty-two-foot-long, forty-six-star US flag that was flown over Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1908 in celebration of Oklahoma's statehood, November 16, 1907.

These items will be available to the public during the Centennial Commemoration on November 16, 2007.

Also... on special loan to the Oklahoma Territorial Museum from November 12 through 17 will be an Embosser and State Seal of Oklahoma and the original Bible used in the Haskell inauguration. These items will be on display during Centennial Celebration week in OTM's Road to Oklahoma exhibit.

Guthrie's Carnegie Library will be the scene of the inauguration reenactments on November 16, 2007.

Dr. Hugh Scott announced the receipt of the telegram informing Oklahomans that they had achieved statehood in 1907. The Statehood Proclamation was signed in Washington, D. C., at 9:16 a.m., and minutes later the news was telegraphed to Guthrie to the State Capital newspaper office. Jack Love, elected as Corporation Commissioner in 1907, kept a campaign promise by bringing a train car full of young ladies from Woodward, Oklahoma to see the statehood festivities.

For more information, details you can call, contact the Guthrie Chamber of Commerce at 405-282-1947.
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