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Located in northeastern Oklahoma, Nowata County was created at statehood, in
1907, from the former Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory.
After 1838/39, forced removal of the Cherokee Indians over the Trail of Tears, from Cherokee Nation East, eight of the nine districts were formed in the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee Districts are; Flint District, Going Snake District , Delaware District, Sequoyah District, was first known as Skin Bayou District, then name was changed to Sequoyah District after Drennen Roll was taken, Illinois District, Canadian District, Saline District & Tahlequah District.
In 1856 Cooweescoowee District, was formed from the western portion of Saline District.
It took its name from the town of Nowata which serves as its county
seat. Stories abound as to the origin of the name Nowata. One opinion is that
two railroad surveyors took the suggestion of an educated Delaware Indian woman,
"Noweta" meaning "welcome", to name the site. Others say a Georgian exploring
the area found no water at some springs and posted a sign "No Wata" to warn the
other travelers.
In 1904, when oil and gas were discovered, Nowata County became known as the
world's largest shallow oil field. Today, the county is principally agricultural,
with cattle products accounting for more than half of the farm income and wheat as the second leading revenue source.
If you look in the Commnites and Towns of Nowata County section below, in Coody's Bluff, I have put up a time line that might help everyone.
The Nowata County Courthouse
built in 1912, J. W. ROBERTS, architect, is an historic site.
Nowata county covers 577 square miles. Major streams; The Verdigris River and other streams, such as the Big, Hickory, California,
Lightning, Salt and Snow Creeks provide recreational and fishing
opportunities and Nowata has several parks.
Courtesy of John Farrell October 13, 2006
Museums and Historic Sites: Nowata County Historical Museum and don't forget the Diamond Point School, is also on the historic register.
Courtesy of John Farrell October 13, 2006
Your Nowata County Host is Sharlee Farrell
Sharleenowataok@aol.com.
Hi, we have made major changes in 2007 to this site. New Search Engine, New Cemeteries have been put on the Nowata Cemetery link, New Marriage Records 1887-1940 and many more additions. Don't forget to check out Childers school photo's and list of alumni. With the New Search Engine, you will be able to find things on the Nowata Genweb site that for the most part probably haven't been looked at in a long time. Scroll down this page and you will find another NEW section "Surrounding Area Cemeteries"which includes 3 cemeteries for Rogers County and 1 cemetery for Craig County recorded by our gals.
June 9, 2007, Adding new pictures.
Check out the new pictures added on the Goodtraveler Cemetery of the Goodtraveler and Conners family. Sharlee---July 8, 2007
Check out the new pictures on Coker, Wells, and pictures are on line for Wolfe, Lowery and Martin Cemeteries. Also have put in links on OUR main cemetery page, for each cemetery, for "FIND A GRAVE" web site. This site is free and you can search for family. You will also find that some people have put pictures of the headstone on line. Some people have also put additional bio's on line. August 8, 2007
Added pictures and historical information on our communities listed below, check it out. In fact, new stuff has been added everywhere. Just check out all the links. Alluwe, Coodys Bluff is also on line for the first time....August 8, 2007 Snow Creek is now on line for the first time August 18, 2007. New information on line about Delaware, Nowata County, Oklahoma, September 12, 2007. Updated the Ward Grove Cemetery September 19, 2007 and getting ready to update the Martin Cemetery.
GREAT NEWS, ADDITIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS HAVE BEEN FOUND FOR NOWATA COUNTY OK. THEY ARE BEING TYPED AS YOU READ THIS. JUST AS SOON AS THEY ARE SENT TO ME, WILL GET THEM ON LINE. AUGUST 18, 2007, some are on line. But we are still not finished, keep checking back. November 17 & 18, 2007 more marriage records have been added from Book 10.
Old hand drawn map of Alluwe has been put on line. Check out the Alluwe site. October 11, 2007
Two NEW cemeteries have been added as of November 20, 2007
December 8 & 9, 2007 New Delaware student list 1858 and Delaware Indian Member list of "M" Company, 6th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Sept. 7, 1864
April 19, 2008 more marriage records have been added. 1887 - 1941
Book 13, which starts with 31 mar 1941 goes to 10 Aug 1943 will be the next book of marriages put on line
NEW May 4, 2008, A-Z Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery corrections and new additions have been completed and are NOW on line. Will Babb is the phantom taking photos of the cemetery markers. He has entered them on the Find A Grave website plus gave copies of the CD’s to City Hall. The photos saved us months of walking to every marker out there to recheck our work. It also saved us sore muscles, time, gas, money, our sanity and a couple of divorces while updating about 13,000 markers at this cemetery and the Relocated cemeteries. Our special hero is WILL BABB. He has done wonderful work for us. Three cheers in his honor and of course the traditional THANK YOU from all of us.
Jeannie Inman got off her duff and proofed my corrections and additions, our records ARE COMPLETE AND ON LINE, 3 May 2008.
Your coordinator, SF
As a reminder, the new search tool that we installed on the Nowata County site, will not pick up the NEW information until after each Monday evening.
Thanks for visiting Nowata County, OKGenWeb. Come back soon...WADO..Sharlee
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Nowata Oklahoma Train Depot
Early 1900's
Courtesy of Patricia Dill
September 20, 2007
This is part of the story, written in the Nowata Daily Star of Thursday, June 10, 1976..
The FIRST railroad passenger depot built in Nowata was this wooden structure, erected in 1889, with the train utilizing the new facility in Nowata Christmas Eve, going from Coffeyville, KS. to Fort Smith, Ark. Old records show the train was loaded with dignitaries, politicians, and probably not a few “opportunists”. This picture was taken from the east side of the tracks, looking west, and the depot was then in the 100 block of N. Oak, directly across the street from where Randall’s Tire company is now located. The new depot was built in its present location in 1912, with as many lawsuits and difficulties in getting it constructed as the Lions Club had in later securing the premises. The last passenger train went through Nowata to Claremore and back on March 27, 1960, with 180 people making the trip.
Courtesy of Nita Wesson September 23, 2007
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As of today, Oct 3, 2006, Sharlee Birge Farrell is the new Coordinator for the Nowata County GENWEB. We want to Thank Vivian for all of the wonderful work she has done in the past.
This page was last updated Wednesday, 16-Jul-2008 22:06:39 MDT by
Sharlee Farrell.
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