A history of Sapulpa,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Sapulpa from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was named after the area's first permanent settler, a full-blood Lower Creek Indian named James Sapulpa, from the Kasihta or Cusseta band, from Osocheetown in Alabama. About 1850, he established a trading post near the meeting of Polecat and Rock Creeks (about 1 mile or 1.6 km) southeast of downtown Sapulpa).
When the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (which became the Frisco) built a spur to this area in 1886 known as Sapulpa Station. The Sapulpa post office was chartered July 1, 1889, and the town was incorporated on March 31, 1898.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Sapulpa’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1940 Census Enumeration District …, 1880: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Sapulpa, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Oklahoma - Creek County - Sapulpa - ED 19-37, ED 19-38, ED 19-39, ED 19-40, ED … (1880) and it appears here side by side.
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