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TULSA

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 368 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TULSA , a city (and co-extensive township) and the county seat of Tulsa county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., on the Arkansas river, about iro m. N.E. of
Guthrie
 . Pop. (rgoo), 1390; (1907), 7298 (638 negroes); (1910) 18,182. Tulsa is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the St Louis & San Francisco, the Midland Valley, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
 , and the Arkansas Valley & Western railways. The city is situated on the old boundary line between Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, where the boundaries of the Cherokee, Creek and Osage nations intersected. It is on an
elevation
  from the rolling prairie, which commands a fine view over the valley of the Arkansas. Tulsa is the seat of
Henry
  Kendall College (Presbyterian, 1894), removed hither from Muskogee in 1907; it was named in honour of
Henry
  Kendall (18151892), who from 1861 until his death was secretary of the board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. The city is a trading centre for a rich oil, gas and coal region and a grain,
cotton
  and live-stock country. Natural gas is used for manufacturing purposes; among the manufactures are glass and
cotton
 -seed oil products. Tulsa was founded in 1887, was first chartered as a city in 1902, and in 1908 adopted a commission form of government.


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