Boundary Line 1889 and 1893

Booth No. 1 was one of nine. To stop sooners, Interior Secretary Hoke Smith required every would-be claimant to get a certificate at a registration booth, four in Oklahoma at or near Orlando, Hennessey, Goodwin and Stillwater and five in Kansas. They opened on Monday, September 11, for ten hours a day, with forty-five clerks for all nine. Lines ran a mile long, four abreast, through dust and prairie-fire smoke, and at least ten people died of heat. About 115,000 received certificates; at least twenty thousand were still in line the day before the run.

What the plaque says

Boundary Line 1889 and 1893 On April 22, 1889, the Run for land south in Old Oklahoma began on this line, by Proclamation of Pres. Benj. Harrison. Also, on Sept. 16, 1893, the Run for land north in the Cherokee Outlet began on this line, by Proclamation of Pres. Cleveland. At Booth No. 1, site 3/4 mi. east, thousands registered for the Run in 1893. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1960

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 17 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.
• Pawnee Nation Museum — 19 mi
  The Pawnee Nation's own museum in Pawnee, keeping the Nation's objects and the record of a military tradition it traces from the Pawnee Scouts of 1864 to the code talkers of World War II.
• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 28 mi
  The 1902 Carnegie Library in Guthrie where Oklahoma's statehood was proclaimed in 1907, saved from demolition in 1972 by adding a museum of the seventeen territorial years beside it.

More markers nearby

• Stillwater — 3.4 mi
• Outlaw Battle — 11 mi
• Oak Park Cemetery — 14 mi
• Run of '89 North Boundary — 17 mi