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Reportedly, there was only one small log cabin in the vicinity and no vegetation except grass. The judge planted 350 trees which provided fruit and shade. A large red oak tree in the northwest corner of the property is the only one of these original trees still standing. Carolyn and Grant collected a
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Depot, was obtained in 1998 with federal grant funds. Due to budget issues regarding maintenance and public access with respect to the Grant Foreman House owned by the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Museum voted in 2002 to contract with OHS to take over the operation of that site and make needed
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The Grant-Foreman House is operated by the Three Rivers Museum. The Three Rivers Museum was established in Muskogee in 1989 as the dream of local historian Dorothy Ball, chairman at that time of the Muskogee Historic Preservation Commission. The main building of the museum, the formerly-abandoned
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When Judge Thomas moved to Muskogee after being appointed to a newly created judgeship in 1897, he had difficulty finding a suitable property for the home he wished to build. He and his daughter, Carolyn, moved into the Adams House hotel until Thomas could get a house ready. He talked to Pleasant
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Another piece of property in the vicinity had been donated to the Presbyterian church for construction of Henry Kendall College. The college would later be relocated to Tulsa, and by 1920 would be renamed as the
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number of acorns while honeymooning in California in 1905. These apparently survived until the present.
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on a tract of prairie land. It was later named after Thomas' son-in-law,
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Grant Foreman House is located in Oklahoma
Grant Foreman House is located in the United States
Muskogee, Oklahoma
35°45′12.15″N 95°23′11.51″W / 35.7533750°N 95.3865306°W / 35.7533750; -95.3865306
73001565
Muskogee, Oklahoma
John R. Thomas
Grant Foreman
National Register of Historic Places
Carolyn Thomas Foreman
Creek Nation
Midland Valley Railroad
University of Tulsa
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"Thomas-Foreman Historic Home." 2012


"Museum Will Operate Thomas--Foreman Home"


"Our History"
Thomas-Foreman Historic Home
Historic Homes of Muskogee Oklahoma

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