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Historic Sites 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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Historic Sites Attractions In Wakita

1. The Old Round Barn Arcadia Oklahoma
U.S. Route 66 , also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California, near Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles . It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song Route 66 and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. In John Steinbeck's classic-American novel, The Grapes of Wrath , the road, Highway 66, was turned into a powerful symbol of escape and loss. US 66 served as...
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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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