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Sand Springs, OK - History
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Welcome to the Sand Springs Home page. The Sand Springs Home page provides as much information as possible on Sand Springs. Knowing Sand Springs’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sand Springs’s Home page, you will also find Sand Springs’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Sand Springs has a population of 19912. 47.2% of Sand Springs’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.8 are female. 55.1% of Sand Springs is married and 70% own their own home. The Average Home price is $144,667, and the average rent is $880. Household median income in Sand Springs is $60,461, and the individual median income is $31,963. Sand Springs’s Ethnic is the following: White(81%), Native(9%), Multiple(6.6%), Hispanic(4.3%), Black(1.8%), Asian(0.9%), Other(0.7%).
The city was founded in 1911, by philanthropist Charles Page, a wealthy businessman in Oklahoma. He envisioned Sand Springs as a haven for orphans and widows. Page helped found and develop Sand Springs as a model city that included all components of a total community.Page bought 160 acres of land in Tulsa County in 1908, intending to build a home for orphan children.
The first 27 children, who had been abandoned by the Hook & Anchor Orphanage in Tulsa, were housed in a tent. This was soon replaced by a frame building large enough to house 50 children. Page decided to form a model community, to be called Sand Springs, on land west of the children's home. He offered free land to any person who wished to move there, and a $20,000 bonus (the amount varied and he also offered free utilities) to companies that would relocate there.
In 1911, Page created the Sand Springs Railway, an interurban connecting Sand Springs to Tulsa. The townsite was laid out the same year. Sand Springs was incorporated as a city in 1912, with a population of 400.In 1911, Page also built the Sand Springs Power Plant, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Morrow Road.
It anchored an area that Page intended to use for industrial development. Several significant additions were made to the facility, and it was the sole source of electric power for Sand Springs until 1947.Some of the earliest manufacturing industries were: Kerr Glass Manufacturing; Commander Mills, Kerr, Hubbard and Kelley Lamp, and Chimney; Southwest Box Company; Empire Chandelier Company; and Sinclair Prairie Refining Company.
Medical and social welfare institutions other than the Sand Springs Home included the Oakwood Sanitorium for nervous and mental diseases, Poole Hospital, the Salvation Army Maternity Home, and the Sand Springs School for the Deaf. Sand Springs became a center of glass production in Oklahoma. Kerr Glass Manufacturing moved to Sand Springs from Chicago in 1913.
It and the Alexander H. Kerr company, which made fruit jars, were the only glass companies remaining in business as recently as 1955. In 1965, Sand Springs annexed Prattville, on the south side of the Arkansas River, an event that would explain the large jump in population in the 1960s.Sand Springs Children's Home is still operating, caring for school-age children in a family-style setting, and with an Independent Living program for graduated students.
The facility supports Camp Charles, which is an eight-acre camp in Grove on Grand Lake, where the kids get to camp, cookout, swim, ski and take boat rides. The Charles Page Family Village, formerly known as the Widow's colony, provides duplex housing to 110 mothers and their children at no cost for rent, utilities or home maintenance.An EF2 tornado hit Sand Springs on March 25, 2015, killing one resident, injuring 30 citizens, and damaging 50 mobile homes.On November 26, 2018, Clyde Boyd Middle School had a CO leak.
The leak started sometime during the morning. Between 11:15 a.m. and 12:58 p.m., five students went home ill, and between 1:15 to 1:35, seven more students became sick. At approximately 2:27, an announcement on the intercom instructed all the students to "go to the new gym". Many students went to hospital from carbon monoxide poisoning.
"There was no evidence of the presence of carbon monoxide in the 6th Grade Center". Over 50 students were sent to nearby hospitals. The school didn't have carbon monoxide detectors at the time, which the district said: "it'll resolve". The school was closed for several days while the problem was fixed.
The district has now installed proper carbon monoxide detectors.
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