History of Cleveland County

Land Run " Sooners "

Santa Fe Train Depot

1st County Seal (adopted June 19, 1890)

The Land Run

1901 Mortgage. Payable in gold coin at 8% interest

Territory Meeting 1890

1st Courthouse located at the corner of Gray Street and Ponca Avenue. Destroyed by a fire in 1904.

Downtown Norman 1964

Moore Lindsay House Museum

Mural on East Gray Street

The Land Run

First Commissioners of Cleveland County

Bridge over the South Canadian River in Noble. Washed out by the flood of 1904.

Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (fka Owen Field & Oklahoma Memorial Stadium)

Courthouse circa 1948

2nd Courthouse built in 1906. Demolished by the Works Projects Administration (WPA) workers in the early 1940s

Moore Lindsay Museum Sign

Norman, County Seat of Cleveland County

Building Owen Field 1921

Indian Territory

Sam Noble Museum of Natural History (founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. Opened current location in 1999)

Oklahoma Rose Rock (became official state rock in 1968)

Adding Machine (purchased in 1908 for $375.00)

American Bison (became official state animal in 1972)

City of Norman circa 1900

Mistletoe is Oklahoma's official floral emblem, designated on Feb. 11, 1893

Cleveland County flag adopted Oct. 29, 2012

Pride of the Promised Land