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Blackwell's Block Photo *Territorial*

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Blackwell's Block Photo *Territorial*
The photo shows a celebration on the town’s main street, with women in long white dresses and hats and men in suits standing on the balcony of the Hotel Blackwell and the boardwalks and street filled with people and carriages. Blackwell Block is printed in white ink on the face of the photo in the foreground. The photo is matted on gray matting board, and measures 6 ½ x 9 ½.” Andrew Jackson Blackwell was an interesting character in Oklahoma history. Born in 1842 in Mississippi, he married a part-Cherokee woman named Rosa Vaught, which fact enabled him to buy property and lay out a town in Indian Territory. He secured the allotments of three eighties (acres) and when the Cherokee Strip opened to settlement on September 16, 1893, the town of Blackwell Rock had already been laid out, surveyed and plotted. Its new inhabitants soon dispensed with the Rock part of the name, simply calling their town Blackwell. He later founded another town named David and a third named Chelsea, both in the Cherokee Nation. A.J. became a wealthy man. He died on June 25, 1903, leaving his widow and three children. [Ref: www.kaycounty.info/PGS/ObitsB/BlackwellAJ_DN.htm and Wikipedia].City: Blackwell RockCounty: KayState: OK
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