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Encyclopedia Britannica



GUTHRIE

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 742 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUTHRIE , the
capital
  of Oklahoma, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Logan county, extending on both sides of Cottonwoodcreek, and lying one mile south of the Cimarron river. Pop. (189o) 5333, (1900) ro,006, (1907) 11,652 (2871 negroes); (1910) 11,654. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
 , the Fort
Smith
  & Western, and the St Louis, El Reno & Western railways. The city is situated about 940 ft. above the sea, in a prairie region devoted largely to stock-raising and the cultivation of Indian corn, wheat,
cotton
  and various fruits, particularly peaches. Guthrie is one of the headquarters of the Federal courts in the state, the other being Muskogee. The principal public buildings at Guthrie are the state Capitol, the Federal building, the City
hall
 , the
Carnegie
  library, the Methodist
hospital
 
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and a large Masonic temple. Among the schools are St Joseph's Academy and a state school for the deaf and dumb. Guthrie has a considerable trade with the surrounding country and has
cotton
  gins, a cotton compress, and foundries and machine shops; among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton goods, flour, cereals, lumber, cigars, brooms and furniture. The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,200,662. The municipality owns and operates the water-works. The city was founded in 1889, when Oklahoma was opened for settlement; in 1890 it was made the
capital
  of the Territory, and in 1907 when Oklahoma was made a state, it became the state capital.


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