This site will be disabled after october 18.  all information from this site will be available under the "historical society" tab on the moore-lindsay historical house museum website at www.normanmuseum.org

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Cleveland County Historical Society meetings are held on the first Saturday of the month at 11AM in the Carriage House, behind the Moore-Lindsay Historical House Museum, which is located at 508 N. Peters. The meetings are open to the public.  Check the calendar for the date of the next meeting.

Read Our Blog: Boomers, Sooners and Johnny-Come-Lately--History of Norman Oklahoma
(Click on Articles below)

1)  Pryor V. Adkins Family and Entrepreneurship in Early Norman

​​ 2) The Death of Marian Mills, 1932 University of Oklahoma Beauty Queen

3) Edward P. Ingle and the Beginning of the Norman Transcript

4) June Thompson Benson, Norman's First Woman Mayor

5) Naval Base on the Prairie, Norman During World War Two

6) T. Jack Foster: Mayor, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Guy Who Brought the Navy to Norman

In 1967, 600 charter members of the Cleveland County Historical Society pledged "to research, preserve, and publicize the history of Cleveland County and its people."  Over the last fifty years, members of the Historical Society have worked to fulfill the mission set down by the founding members.

The Historical Society became guardians of the Moore-Lindsay Historical House Museum in 1973. In the 1970s, when citizens in cities and towns across the United States became concerned about the deteriorating condition of older historic homes in their areas, many state and city governments formed historical preservation committees to help organize the preservation of homes and designate historic districts.  Norman was one of those communities. The mayor of Norman set up the “Mayor’s Committee on Historic Preservation” with the goal to back citizen’s efforts to preserve the history of Norman through its architecture.  Working with members of the Historical Society, the city of Norman purchased the Moore-Lindsey House at 508 N. Peters in 1973. Soon after the purchase, the City allocated funds to renovate the House to its original Victorian style, which represents the early settlement and statehood Oklahoma. 

It is also the mission of the Cleveland County Historical Society to work towards a Norman museum that represents the history of Norman from per-settlement to the present. The historical society accepts all donations of artifacts and funds to work toward that goal. 


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