Oklahoma’s state capital history

Reliving History - Part 9

  • This monument outside the Logan County Courthouse in Guthrie details how the Oklahoma State Seal was taken from Guthrie to Oklahoma City in June 1910.
  • Gov. Charles N. Haskell, right, sits in his office in the Lee Huckins Hotel in Oklahoma City two days after the Oklahoma State Capital was moved from Guthrie. He’s pictured with Bill Cross.
June 16, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt signed the Enabling Bill, thus setting in motion the last steps towards statehood. The Enabling Act which merged Indian and Oklahoma territories and provided the provisions for a state constitution to be written. This made the creation of Oklahoma as a state possible. Representatives from both Indian and Oklahoma territories drafted a constitution to be voted…

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