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Stillwater: Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, city, seat (1907) of Payne county, north-central Oklahoma, U.S. It was first recorded in 1884 as a colony of “boomers” (illegal homesteaders from Kansas) on Stillwater Creek, near its confluence with the Cimarron River; the colony was led by Civil War veteran Captain David L. Payne, to whom a memorial park was dedicated in 1996. A permanent settlement was begun in April 1889 in the first great Oklahoma land run. Growth was stimulated by the establishment there in 1890 of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, rechartered as Oklahoma State University in 1957. The university continues to dominate the ...(100 of 183 words)

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