Alva, Oklahoma
Outdoor Murals
The Cherokee Strip Land Run - Robert Cooke, 1998
Northwest wall at 6th and College
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Outdoor Murals
The Cherokee Strip Land Run - Robert Cooke, 1998
Northwest wall at 6th and College
... The Alva Friends Church was established in 1901 and located at this spot in 1919 as Alva's first Church. The Fire Bell was Fire Bellplaced in this church in Wichita, Kansas, in 1893, and was moved to Alva, Oklahoma, in 1895.
Alva, OK Historic ChurchesNorthwestern Oklahoma State University Museum houses one of the top taxidermic bird collections in the United States and also has natural history exhibits, fossils, and Indian artifacts.
Alva, OK MuseumsThe Cherokee Strip Land Run - Robert Cooke, 1998 Northwest wall at 6th and College
Alva, OK ArtsA World War II POW Camp was located just south of Alva in the 1940s. More than 5,000 prisoners were interned at a time when the population of Alva itself was only 3,500.
Alva, OK Military HistoryIn early 1870s, C.E.(Ed) Jones and Joe Plummer blazed the historic trail which is an important part of Oklahoma Panhandle's r...
Highway 50, which runs through Freedom, provides the traveler with one of most scenic drives in the southern great plains....