A little History on the oldest park in Tulsa Oklahoma, close to where I grew up.

The first public park in Tulsa, has an interesting History. I thought it would be fun to show the park to you.

There are several Historic locations within the park. First we find the Marker for the border of three Indian Nations that meet here.

The actual plate is hard to read, describing this meeting place.

The next item is the oldest remaining house in Tulsa. I will do a separate post on this house later.

Then there is a time capsule in the park.

The building in the park used to be a basketball court, but now it is a children's museum.

They have a interactive lab inside

Walking into the park, here is one of the bridges across the stream along a walking path.

There is a place that used to feed water into the pond, where I used to catch crawdads.

It dried up, and the pools are now planted with irises, I am not happy to see that.

We then move down to the accidental lake, complete with cypress trees.

Does anyone know what the little stumps are for?

Now for the accidental part of this lake

In 1904, a man working in a bunker where the lake now resides, inadvertently set off 875 Quarts of nitro glycerin used in the oil field to fractionate wells. The explosion was heard in Claremore 30 miles away....

So they dammed it up, and made a swimming hole out if the resulting pond. It is now a stocked fishing hole.

They aireate the water for the fish.

Makes for larger fish in a pond this size.

There is a large number of geese and ducks living here.

Take some bread or popcorn, and you will have 30 to 50 of them following quickly.

I was raised close to here, and we spent many a great day in this park.

Now for the rediculous part of the day. In the middle of all this nature, I found this.

The obvious need for a high speed data link in the middle of a park is ironic, LOL!

But there is a nice playground with rubber instead of gravel on the ground.

There is a waterpark, upgraded from when I used to play there in the heat.

I enjoyed this walk down memory lane, thanks for coming along!