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TEACHING JOB BROUGHT ZELDA ASHLEY TO CLAREMORE

Telling the history of Claremore…one story at a time This article was published in the Claremore Progress June 27, 1993 by Dorothy Willman. Zelda Bear first came to Claremore as a young girl.  She, her mother, and her baby brother were visiting her uncles, Bob

COMMUNITY SERVANT – CARLENE WEBBER

Telling the history of Claremore one story at a time This story was written by Pat Reeder in March, 2024 as part of the Claremore Museum of History’s HERstory campaign during Women’s History Month. Carlene Burkhard Webber never forgot the devotion to her native Arkansas,

Sequoyah Hotel

This was published in The Daily Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 226, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 17, 1901, Newspaper, August 17, 1901.  The first day of January, 1902, has been fixed as the time for the grand opening of a big, modern brick