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With the
discovery of oil in 1901,
Tulsa
changed from a cow-town to a boomtown. At the nearby community of
Red Fork, a giant oil deposit was found and wildcatters and investors
began to flood the city of
Tulsa,
bringing along their families and settling in. New neighborhoods were
soon established on the north side of the
Arkansas River and the town
began to spread out in all directions from downtown.
Four
years later, in 1905, a new, even larger oil discovery was made in
nearby Glenn Pool that would lead to
Tulsa’s
golden age of the 1920s and its title as the "Oil Capital of the
World."
Many early oil companies chose
Tulsa for
their home base.
By 1920,
Tulsa
was called home to almost 100,000 people and 400
different oil companies.
Today,
Tulsa
continues to have a thriving oil industry.
©
Kathy Weiser/Legends
of America, updated May, 2011
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