Sapulpa

The station came in 1886, when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad extended its line from Red Fork and named Sapulpa Station for the man who had befriended its workers. Walnut timber was the town's first industry and pressed brick, from 1898, its second, and by 1900 the railroad had made Sapulpa a division point for overhauling rolling stock, until the shops moved to Tulsa in 1927. The Glenn Pool discovery of November 22, 1905 nearly doubled the population between 1907 and 1910, and in 1913 the state Supreme Court settled the county seat on Sapulpa over Bristow.

What the plaque says

Sapulpa Creek Indian "Chief" Sapulpa had a ranch, blacksmith shop and store here by 1850. Serving in Confed. Army, he was discharged a Lieut., and is buried N. of his old home- stead in cemetery owned by Nancy Green Chap., NSDAR, 2 blks. S. Local R R station named in his honor. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Philbrook Museum of Art — 12 mi
  Waite Phillips's 1927 Italian villa and its Villa Lante-inspired gardens, given to Tulsa in 1938 and open as an art museum since October 1939, strong in Native American art.
• Creek Nation Council Oak Park — 12 mi
  The oak on a south Tulsa hill where the Lochapoka Muscogee lit their fire in 1836 after removal from Alabama, the ceremonial ground from which Tulsa took its name.
• Greenwood Rising — 13 mi
  The history center at Greenwood and Archer that tells how Tulsa's Black Wall Street was built, how white mobs burned it in 1921, and how its people rebuilt it.

More markers nearby

• Glenn Pool, World's Greatest Oil Pool — 5.4 mi
• First Oil Well, Tulsa County — 9.1 mi
• Booker T. Washington High School — 14 mi
• International Petroleum Exposition — 14 mi