New F~cison~ City "istory ered by Students
Post Cards Go
011 Sale Monday
at Ccull-a! High
ncre Pouy EXploCSS Left First Lcttc S for TuIsey Tow:l Fo
Although they are con-r
"inced that Tulsa's first post
office was the Perryman
house on East Forty-first
street, members of the Tulsa
Historical society ha\'c determined
the existence or an
earlier - but unofficial - !
mail distributing point.
IL "'U another Perryman house.
the double log cabin built b)' LewLs
Perryman before the Civtl 1I1IT. ntar
h present intersecHon of Thirty_
street and Rockford .,'cnut.
nown lL5 Tulsa's oldest house. the
tabln was used as a MCOUrt.esy" post
office, members hal'e learned. and
the pony express man was allowed.
to leal'e letlers for Tulsey Town set.Uers
there before a real potSt office
Wa.II establiShed.
Ha\'lng earned out that "cour-s)'''
duty "..ell, it \\1LS natural tha~
the go\'ernment should entrust the
.same family with Tuba's po'ltal
services when they .....ere officially
established In 18'i9. That location
on Forty-first street 1IiM mal1t:ed
IIeveral }'e:lTS ago b}' the Daughters
of American COlonLsts.
Thret·l'ear Researeh This s~etch of Tulsa', olded house, built by Lewis Perryman The s.ekh, done by Kate White, firlt art' teacher at Hen!"
Announcement of the earlier before the Civil war near the present intersection of Thirty-third Kendall college, was loaned by Arthur Per......man, The hous. w,'
house, made today by Mrs. Louise I.f h f h 'I , r .,
Dodge Whitham, Central high street and Roc~ ord avenue, is on t e first of a series a iston:" Tusa', Tlfst-but unofficial--mail distributing point. The Georg.
school history Instructor and society podcards to be distributed by the Tulsa Historical society. The ca,d, Perryman home on East Forty-first street has been determined ill'
svpeoanrsorre,seiasrcthheamreosnuglt sotfudaentthraened-- _w:.::in,-,,~o_oo':.::'~'c',:.::M:.::0c,d=.!.yc' -; 7ctch,::..:fci,~'otcTc"c'.c':..!:Pcoc.otcocffcic'c'c,:o:..:dc':'Ci~'C.:t:':d~bl_W,:,'~'~h~i:,~t~o~,:.:,~":t~ho~,~it~,'~"
Mult members. The society was
founded at Central, Mrs, Whitham or the work done by through the earl)' history of Tulsey "Lewis Perryman was 14 the year fantry, and were honorably dl
John B. Meserve, adviser and re- Town, is told In the lesson plans he saw so many of his sons go orr charged Irom the federal army
m:InAh~~I~~e1110itetl~e It9·~~ltyl'~:J~ ~ay"plIO~;~~eiur:;scl~~:!~~'nLi~~~d used In Mrs. Whitham's ellW. to war. When Union forces occu. MnYn~86b5."
While, first art teacher In Henry Bet,ty Perrine, Central high S"Chool "In 18148 I.e" s Perryman ""'as pIed TaI1IequaI1 and Fort G1U"<_>"Vn In the ..a...c..cuepttead.! t"otlrUslte paoutshtenotficflictey
Kendall eollere, Is u!!Cd em Ihe Ii:raduate. operating a trading store ncar 1662, his sons, Sanford, Thomas, Tulsa." was aroused three )'ears a.
first of ~'hat members hope wlll . ,Oano's Cros'>!ng. not lar from SOuth Legus, Josiah and Henry, decided when members or the society que
be a serle.~ of historical TulSl\ post Th,' bf1rsl, ',:lrd, Issu,C "a,s, , fl- Thirty.first street III modern Tulsa. they had made mistakes In joining t10ned old-tllTlCrs several remel
,,-d, Th, ,"",, '"'" ., ,. -'1, nance! y s u en UlT' erwn n" "'d h' ",.., -,'-I" '"d b".'.. "d • "_ - "' - - " p ,. ~...." .... with the 6 }Cr cent Interest to be ..'" , ... '. ....,. the Confederates so they came ""r~-", Ie lJ<:W s erryman hou
Monday at Centrnl, pale1 off Inl mills Mrs. Whitham marketing q,ttle. Ma:.~ ~NJl~r, lted home. But by Oetober the COnfed_ where the mall had been taken b
The card legend reads: In ' In comfort Ul ty]) ou og erates again swept over northeast for 1819.
"Tulsa's Oldest House-Before ~ . houses with, O\!U)'11ll c.bins for Oklahoma, forcing the Union trooP'> Valuable Inlonnatlon was giv,
he Civil war. Lewis Perl1'man bunt The eerUrlcate reads' guests and slates. His older !ons back Into Kansas. This endfingrred thc studcnts by Grcen Yeargl
lis double log cabin near Thirty- "The Tulsa Hlstoricai society of and dauahlll'$ w~ educ.aAt~_~t the not only all of Lewis Perrynlan's Skiatook, a pioneer Oklahoman, &I
rst street and Rocl{rord avenue. central IIlgh school, Tulsa, Okla- Pr~byterlan m"..on ....._s at posI;esslons, but his lamlly's safety one 01 the flrst mAli carriers on tl
ote the hand.h!:wn 'shake' 1'001, homa. This certifies that ("ame) CO"eta and Tullahasee .. - • as well. old Star routc,
e enclosed central porch, the ha, purchas~ ...... shares or un· "'The Creek eovntrr \\"iU Died After Flirht Yeargin said he brought In ~
ormous logs, morUsed tOieUler, derwrlter:s stock, par value 25 CBDts, '''Hemanaged to escape "'Ith his second mall that came to this te
d the 'stake 1I.11d rider' fence. which &hall bear Int.erl'lit at ~te 'mapped In J850 b,."the 1lntled ramily and joined the Creek refu- tol1', and also the last carried
wooy tales often m~ntlon 'the old of 6 per cent per annwn froftf'tll~ S(itelJ 8un'au 'Or 'J'~'~hl~al g:!'CS In Kansas where he soon died the Star route. The route wa:
use' which "as an unofflclal date of purchase un"U ~hll;iCd Enpn«l'S. The.mar "T~as"e' from the uposure and strain of hLs,~ntlnUed In 1881, a }'ear bdo
ighborhood post orneI" unlll by the socl~ty." b,. them 'II'U used to Indicate Ute !light and the shOCk or Jeaming'f1n;t rallroad came. because t
" The stock "'ill be Urtd, I.S sool1 focallt,. n..... ImOIl'zt,lIs Tulsa That tllat all his property hdl been seized emment lound it too l'xpen;
The sketch ""as loaned to 110- as a sufficent num or'cll.rtts me wa..-.b. CJ"fl' kt~af the ,bY hLs COnfederate nefshbol'$. His 50me case" It ,",'U COfitin
y members for the cards by sold. 2 nelchborhood. oob' a! t~e 10ns enlisted Dec. 1, 1 2. In COm- deliver a single letetr.
hUT Jt, man. A part or the ~to\- ~.. cml!'tJts b d pan}' I ot the first re ment or In- Terml.nals ,,'ere Vlnl
"n~lo" wn~ mad by mall; feBI" thread!:" ·...1"111 , dlaa r 9ill e Kansas br yq:as. ~
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