Tulsa history timeline
1879 – First post office
1882 – Population reached 200
1883 – First water well and Arkansas Bridge
1884 – First school
1885 – First church
1893 – First mill and ice plant
1895 – First bank
1898 – Area incorporated as a “city”
1898 – Population – 1,100
1901 – Oil discovered at Red Fork
1902 – First brick streets
1905 – Citizen’s Gas Company formed
1906 – First hospital
1908 – Population over 13,000
1911 – First roller coaster
1911 – First typhoid fever epidemic
1914 – Tulsa Philharmonic Society formed
1914 - Tulsa Symphony Orchestra formed
1917 – First food shortage due to WW I
1920 – Spavinaw Water project began
1920 – Population over 100,000
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot
1922 – Theatre Tulsa opened
1925 – St. John Hospital near completion
1927 – Hillcrest Hospital construction
1933 – First professional football team
1938 – Largest dust storm hits Tulsa
1941 – Douglas bomber plant opened
1944 – Impending city bankruptcy due to WWII
1945 – Army stops making bombers – unemployment rises
1946 – City recovers financially
2005 – Metropolitan population - 887,000+
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