The historic greenwood area is the area where he bought this property. It became known as the black wall street because of the number of Business Developers and entrepreneurs that came to the greenwood area to start a business. There was a lot of promise here because although blacks were not allowed to work in the oil fields, there was a lot of opportunity for those people who work for the wealthier people who were in the oil business, and so there was a lot of promise. Good jobs. Good paying jobs. The people took advantage of it. In the greenwood area, you have doctors. You have lawyers. You have pharmacists. You have educators, just anything that went into sustaining a quality of life for a community could be found in the greenwood area. That was the origin of people looking for opportunities. There was land available here in tulsa. Subsequently, it just flourished and when they arrested this young man for this alleges assault on the a legelleged alleged assault at this Downtown Depa
For ceremonies, he selected 40 acres closer to downtown tulsa. The house that is standing out here was built in 1910 because the original has was hit by lightning and burned down. In order to afford to rebuild that house, the family had to sell 40 acres. The family was very involved in tribal politics. They provided the nation with judges, several chiefs, longtime representation in the national council, people who would actually negotiate treaties with the united states. Benjamin perryman was one of the men who negotiated the 1833 treaty. They were very involved in Tribal Affairs for a long time. As the railroad hit town, they became involved in local trade. Perryman and reads was a very early store in what is now downtown tulsa. Like his perryman was elected principal chief of the muscogee nation. He had been a judge in the District Court for the nation and later returned to practice law as also started growing as tulsa started growing. My greatgrandfather George Perryman was one of t
Anyway, that was after reading to appomattox, the only book we had to learn from. I was trying to figure out how the armies actually got around from Sailors Creek in this area where most of the heavy fighting takes place. I remember the editor of the Farmville Herald some historian asked him how the troops got from highbridge to farmville they were wanting to know. I remember he said it would take a philadelphia lawyer to figure out how the armies got through this area. Im not from philadelphia but i think ive figured it out. Would you speak on major henry young . Chris henry young was in the second rhode island infantry. Another thing the Union Cavalry used on this campaign and tracy ably talked about what the Union Cavalry was at this point of the war, they wore confederate uniforms and took the persona of i think they took the ninth virginia cavalry, fake southern accents, and what they would do is they would ride into the confederate line of march. They would tell the teamsters go