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M. TEEHEE GOES TO WASHINGTON

Story written by Steve Robinson for the Claremore Museum of History in conjunction with Women’s History Month at the MoH 2024 with excerpts from Fall 2011 Surrey Magazine. Kimberly Teehee was born on October 13, 1968 and is an attorney, politician, and activist on Native

RONALD JOHNSON – A TRUE PIONEER

Telling the History of Claremore…one story at a time As published in the Claremore Daily Progress on November 19, 2011 by Larry Larkin, Progress Correspondent A true pioneer was laid to rest this past week.  Claremore’s own Ronnie L. Johnson, the first Oklahoma Highway Patrol black trooper died

LANDMARK’S HISTORY RETRACED

Telling the History of Claremore…one story at a time This article was published in the Centennial Edition of the Claremore Progress June 27, 1993 by Joe Carter. Despite the raging 1930’s depression, Oklahoma Governor E. W. Marland gained $185,000 in state funding to build a Memorial