by bvillehistory | Feb 8, 2023
The National Hotel, later known as the Right Way Hotel, opens for business.
by bvillehistory | Feb 8, 2023
Bartlesville is incorporated as a city of the third class, with a population of 200, on January 15. The first commercial oil well in Oklahoma is discovered and the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 has its first gusher on March 25 and is completed on April 15. (See photo.)
by bvillehistory | Feb 8, 2023
The first newspaper, the “Weekly Magnet,” is published every Friday.
by bvillehistory | Feb 8, 2023
This is the Stage Coach that carried the mail from Coffeyville, Kansas to J. H. Bartles’ Store, Indian Territory in the early 70’s showing the Thayer Brake – patented March 11th, 1890. (See photo.) The first electric light system is established this...
by bvillehistory | Feb 8, 2023
William Johnstone and George B. Keeler, both former clerks in Bartles’ store, establish a general merchandise store on the south side of the Caney River.
