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Architectural Building Attractions In Wakita

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Twister The Movie Museum

The Old Round Barn

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

The Pioneer Woman Mercantile

Kansas Star Casino

Marland Estate

Oklahoma State University

Wakita is a town in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States, founded in 1898, approximately 8 miles south of the Kansas border. Its population was 344 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 18.1 percent at the 2000 census. Wakita is notable as a location in the 1996 feature film Twister.
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Architectural Building Attractions In Wakita

1. Marland Estate Ponca City
Ernest Whitworth Marland, known as E. W. Marland , was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and politician who was a U.S. Congressman and Oklahoma governor. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from northern Oklahoma in 1932 and as the tenth Governor of Oklahoma in 1934. As a Democrat, he initiated a Little Deal in Oklahoma during the Great Depression, working to relieve the distress of unemployed people in the state, and to build infrastructure as investment for the future. Marland made fortunes in oil in Pennsylvania in the 1900s and in Oklahoma in the 1920s, and lost each in the volatility of the industry and the times. At the height of his wealth in the 1920s, Marland built a mansion known as the Palace of the Prairies in Ponca City,...
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Woodward County, Ok May 11, 2010

The only tornadic supercell in the United States during may 11, 2010

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