The 9-foot, pound bronze Buffalo Soldier statue before you is titled, “Answering the Call..."

The late 19th and early 20th centuries brought a population boom to Oklahoma. As more and...

By the late 1920s, Lawton’s central business district had ballooned, spreading out over almost twelve blocks...

In the 1940s Ben Hutchins began a passion project when he set his mind to one thing, planning and...

The Douglass School and the Dunbar School are two iconic institutions that shaped the African...

The past one hundred years or so have brought many changes to Lawton. The sounds of wagon...

Largely due to the distribution of Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache lands, the population in...

Instead of another land rush, the Southwestern Oklahoma land lottery of 1901, offered nearly...

Like most of the United States, the Great Depression was devastating for Oklahoma To Relieve...

Things were quite different in 1901. At that time, Fort Sill had been established for over thirty years...

The first elementary school in Lawton, Oklahoma opened its doors in 1902. Like most pioneer...

On January 19, 1899, the war hero General Henry Lawton was sent to Manila to fight against Filipino...

On any other night, the citizens of Lawton would have been sleeping, but on March 3rd, 1904...

National Guard Armories go back to the time of local militia units of the Colonial and Revolutionary War...

Originally built for use during the Indian Wars, Fort Sill was a commanding military base outside...

From the 1920s through the 1960s, America was experiencing the golden age of cinema. After the...

The turn of the twentieth century brought increasing numbers of pioneers west into Indian Territory...

The history of an Indian School in the Fort Sill area spans over 100 years, from its inception as a...

Oklahoma was hit hard during the Great Depression, and while the symptoms started at the...

It’s hard to picture Avenue F, running through central Lawton, without railroad tracks, streetlights, and...

A common type of business in the Southwest, Indian trading posts started appearing in the 1700's...

The Enid and Anadarko line was the first railway to come to the city of Lawton. Built in 1901, the line was...

In 1901, the rough and tumble tent city of Lawton was filled with saloons, gambling dens, and...

In the late 1800s, it was thought that there was both a need and an opportunity for more Christian work...

It’s no secret that individuals can have massive impacts on communities with their legacy living on for...

The history of Cameron University is rooted in Oklahoma’s statehood. In 1908, the Oklahoma...

Founded in 1901, Lawton was the last of the Oklahoma boom towns fueled by the land...

At first glance, the Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport looks relatively ordinary. In reality, it is far from it...

The United States government's lamentable policy to relocate the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache...

In the early days of Lawton, Oklahoma, the vast majority of buildings were not buildings at all...