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Education in Owasso has seen many changes since 1885 when George Gassoway became a teacher in Indian Territory. He would not have been allowed to teach had he not married an Indian or part Indian. He did marry Mary Holland, this made him eligible to teach. Lulu Barnes in 1898 established a subscription school of about 20 students located in the vicinity of the present Odd Fellows Hall. In 1903 a frame building was built to accommodate the school needs in the Indian Territory ere. Nat. D. Smith was the first teacher. He enrolled forty-seven children at one dollar per pupil per month. Beginning the second term C.O. Kinney's step daughter, Lucy Ann and Bettie B. Martin began teaching the school. This structure was also used as a meeting place for City government. Later the School Board sold the building to the Odd Fellow Lodge of Oklahoma in 1910. |
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