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Vian, OK - History
We would like to provide the residents of Vian a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Vian Home page. The Vian Home page provides as much information as possible on Vian. Knowing Vian’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Vian’s Home page, you will also find Vian’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Vian has a population of 1350. 48.9% of Vian’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 38.8% of Vian is married and 56.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $78,774, and the average rent is $632. Household median income in Vian is $32,019, and the individual median income is $16,364. Vian’s Ethnic is the following: White(43.4%), Native(30.7%), Multiple(16.1%), Black(9.1%), Hispanic(7.6%), Asian(0.4%), Other(0.3%).
At the time of European contact, the area around what is now Vian was inhabited and controlled, but not settled, by the Osage, who used it as hunting ground. The name "Vian" is a corruption of viande, the French word for "meat"; French traders called Vian Creek "bayou viande", literally "meat bayou".The area was part of the controversial Lovely's Purchase in 1816, which opened pre-removal Cherokee settlement in the area, then part of the Missouri Territory; the area became part of the Arkansas Territory in 1819.
After the Indian Removal Act, Cherokees were given control of the area under the original jurisdiction of the pre-statehood Cherokee Nation, within the Indian Territory. In the process, Dwight Mission was moved to the area from Russellville.Vian was initially settled as a trading post between Big Vian and Little Vian creeks in the Illinois District of the Cherokee Nation.
When a post office was established in 1886, the first postmaster, Mahala Thompson, wanted to name the town Round Mountain, which was already in use; the post office was thus named Vian, for the two creeks. After the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway (later the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and eventually the Missouri Pacific Railroad) laid tracks through the town in 1888, it became an important shipping point for cotton, with an estimated 2,500-3,000 bales shipped annually by 1901.
When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, Vian became part of the new state as the Cherokee Nation was all but dissolved. Today, the town lies within the jurisdiction of the modern-day Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Vian's education system dates back to the late 1880s, when a mission school for Cherokee children was established; a white school was established in the 1890s.
Vian was also home to the Douglass High School, which served the region's African-American students. The district was integrated in the mid-1950s. Today, Vian's economy is based largely around tourism and services, owing to its location along Interstate 40 and its proximity to Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Robert S.
Kerr Reservoir and Tenkiller Ferry Lake. Agriculture remains prominent in the local economy as well.
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