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Oct 20, 2015 · Early Tulsa Oklahoma: Perryman Cemetery. By: 36.104686. -95.966635. The oldest cemetery in Tulsa Oklahoma is the Perryman Cemetery located on the Northwest corner of 32nd street and Utica Avenue. The Perryman family are referred to as Tulsa's founding family.
Burials at the old graveyard were discontinued after Oaklawn Cemetery at 11th Street and Peoria Avenue was designated as the official public cemetery in 1905. The city attempted to relocate...
May 30, 2024 · The process to unravel these details started at Oaklawn Cemetery, the oldest existing cemetery in Tulsa, where there is strong evidence that at least some victims were buried. The space is about a mile away from the 100 block of Greenwood Avenue—once the crown jewel of Black Wall Street.
6 days ago · The City of Tulsa has concluded a fourth excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery in a search for missing and unknown victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Cemetery records indicated 18 burials there ...
The City of Tulsa launched the 1921 Graves Investigation to help find answers from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. To do this, the City has convened some of the best experts in America to help locate, identify and connect people today with those who were lost more than 100 years ago.
Nov 1, 2022 · As part of the city’s effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 17 additional adult burials have been uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn Cemetery, the...
May 27, 2021 · On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, walked into an elevator in downtown Tulsa, Okla. What happened next is unclear, but it sparked the Tulsa race massacre, one of...
