Run of '89 North Boundary

The county across this line began as County P when the Cherokee Outlet opened in 1893 and was named that year for John Willock Noble, Benjamin Harrison's college friend and his secretary of the interior from March 7, 1889 to March 6, 1893. On Noble's watch the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that pressed nineteen tribes onto small allotments and opened the rest of their land to homesteaders, and legislation he started on March 3, 1891 made forest reserves possible. Perry, laid out around the land office, had about 40,000 people in tents by nightfall of opening day.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 North Boundary At the opening of "Old Oklahoma," April 22, 1889, this was the north line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract south, were peopled by tens of thousands. Homes were planted and tent cities sprang up before nightfall. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1972

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 9.5 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.
• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 20 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

• Mulhall — 6.8 mi
• First Town Site of Marshall — 14 mi
• Lovell — 16 mi
• Boundary Line 1889 and 1893 — 17 mi