What is the history of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma?
Main article: History of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the area known as the “unassigned lands” was opened for settlement in an event called “The Oklahoma Land Run”. Some 10,000 homesteaders settled what is now downtown Oklahoma City, creating a tent city in a single day. Within 10 years the population had doubled in what became a permanent settlement and the future capital of Oklahoma. By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had already supplanted Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state. Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.
