Sapulpa History

Announcements:

March 1, 2021

February 1, 2021

We are back and opened for business. Our hours are Thursdays - Saturdays from 10 AM to 3 PM.
Please come in and visit. We so miss giving tours!

December 1, 2020

As of November 19, these are the days we will PLAN to be closed. These dates will not change, but in the future dates may be added.

Dates We Plan To Be Closed:

November 22-December 2;
December 20-January 31.

Update: We will be closed until Thursday, February 4th, 2021. We will be opened Feb 4th, 10 AM - 3 PM; we will continue to have business hours Thursdays - Saturdays, 10 AM - 3 PM, starting Feb 4th. Thank you.

November 1, 2020

Special Travel Exhibit
"Votes for Women: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage"

The travel exhibit is from Oklahoma Historical Center featuring Oklahoma women and suffrage. 2020 celebrates the 100th anniversary for national women's vote. November 5, 2018, however, marked the 100 years of the women's right to vote in Oklahoma. Oklahoma became the twenty-first state to grant suffrage to women by vote of 106,909 to 81, 481. This exhibit explores a history of women since 1890 who were among the first in Oklahoma Territory to lobby for the right to vote. It started with the Women's Christian Temperance Union who wanted a voice in school elections. The grassroots efforts grew in 1895 when Laura A. Gregg, a National American Woman Suffrage leader, came to Oklahoma to push for universal right to vote.

This exhibit will be available from November 5 - December 19, 2020.

October 1, 2020

New Exhibition: Local Artists Room

The new room opens this month! The Local Artists Room will feature Sapulpa's (and the area's) artists of painters, quilters, sketchers, and knitters. We will soon add other artists' techniques to the room, such as potters, photographers, and more. For now, however, the room is designed with three main walls showcasing multiple artists throughout the town's history. Then the Feature Wall, the fourth wall, highlights one artist's collection the museum owns. This wall is the only wall that will consistently change, every six (6) months; every six months, another artist's collection will be highlighted on this wall. We have artworks from Dick Ruhl, Sam Houghton, Gale Wallace, Pahsetopah, Russell Crosby, Cleo Clark, and many more!

September 1, 2020

Oklahoma Route 66 Passports are here!

We are part of the Travel OK: Route 66 Passport program - come get your passport STAMPED here!!!*

*The date and time in the books have been changed due to Covid-19. The book states are regular hours (Tuesday-Saturday, 10 AM - 3 PM), however, due to the special hours, we are now open THURSDAY-Saturday, 10 AM - 3 PM.

What the Oklahoma Route 66 Passport means:

Bring your passport to each of the book's 66 stops, and the friendly folks there will stamp the corresponding page for you.
The book is divided into Eastern, Central and Western sections. Once you’ve got all the stops completed for a section, take the passport into one of the five Oklahoma Tourism Information Centers that are managed by the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department.
A staff member will sign your completion page for that region and give you your prize — a portion of a fun Route 66 magnet. Return once you get each stretch finished to get the other magnet pieces.
Once you complete all three sections, bring your passport back to the Tourism Information Center. A staff member will verify that it's complete, stamp your book and give you a free collectible Route 66 coin.

Find Out More About the Oklahoma Route 66 Passport Here

May 1, 2020

PHASE ONE REOPENING

Starting June 4th, 2020, the Sapulpa Historical Society has updated the business hours for public tours. Thursdays through Saturdays, 10 AM to 3 PM for all museums.

If you'd like to contact us:
(EMAIL) sapulpahistsoc@tulsacoxmail.com
(PHONE) Mike Jeffries, Museum Director, (918) 344-7843

Thank You and Stay Safe.

January 1, 2020

"Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry"

A special travel exhibit from the Oklahoma History Center will be featured on the third floor of the museum, in Saunders' Hall. The event will be from February 27 to May 2.

November 1, 2019

Christmas Open House: A Gene Autry Christmas
Thursday, December 12: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Did you know that Gene Autry worked at Sapulpa's depot?
The Christmas Cowboy co-wrote and sang Christmas songs that we still cherish today - such as Rudolph (Red Nose Reindeer), Frosty the Snowman, Here Comes Santa Claus, and Up on the House Top.
In a way, you can say that dear ol' Rudolph is from Sapulpa!
We will have hot apple cider, desserts, and wonderful docents to greet you during your tour of Sapulpa history.

April 1, 2019

We have begun our next project. A local artist, Kenneth Hollingshead, has painted the Black-and-White murals on the front of the Sapulpa Historical Society & Museum's building. Another local artist, Russell Crosby, has painted the Color mural on the west end of the Sapulpa Historical Society & Museum's building. We have seven murals of historic images in Sapulpa.

August 1, 2018

We celebrated turning the big 5-0 on August 25, 2018. We hosted our very own birthday party with food, cake, guest speakers, and a huge crowd eager to learn the history of this great town! In 1968, we started in a small room of the Y.W.C.A., and within fifty years, we not only own the entire building, we expanded to the whole block; we opened the Sapulpa Fire Museum and the Waite Phillips Barnsdall Filling Station.

See our pictures here:

50th Celbration