Run of '89 East Boundary

The line the runners waited on was a surveyor's line. In 1870 E. N. Darling and Theodore H. Barrett ran Oklahoma's survey from an initial point chosen about a mile south of Fort Arbuckle, near present Davis: the Indian Meridian north and south, the Indian Base Line east and west. Townships and ranges across the state, except the Panhandle, are still counted from that point. Between the Cimarron and Canadian rivers the meridian became the east edge of the unoccupied public domain, and so one of the lines from which the 1889 run began.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 East Boundary At the opening of "Old Oklahoma" April 22, 1889, this was the east line for the run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, west, were peopled by tens of thousands. Homes were planted and tent cit- ies sprang up before nightfall. Oklahoma Historical Society 56-1994

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 18 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.
• First Americans Museum — 19 mi
  The museum of the 39 First American nations in Oklahoma today, on the Oklahoma River, with galleries shaped by each nation, Smithsonian objects brought home and a 90-foot mound.
• Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum — 20 mi
  The outdoor memorial and museum on the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people were killed at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, shaped by the families and survivors.

More markers nearby

• Washington Irving's Camp — 3.9 mi
• Route 66 — 4.4 mi
• Central State College — 13 mi
• Oklahoma's First Television Station Channel 4 — 16 mi