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Populated places established in 1889

  • Oklahoma CityOn the 22nd of April 1889, a crowd of roughly ten thousand people surged across the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma. They raced to claim plots of land that had…
  • East Rutherford, New JerseyOn the 28th of March 1894, a referendum held the day before transformed Boiling Springs Township into the Borough of East Rutherford.
  • Norman, OklahomaOn the 2nd of April 1889, a crowd of at least 150 people stood in makeshift campsites near what is now Classen Boulevard and Lindsey Street.
  • TijuanaIn 1829, Santiago Argüello Moraga established a cattle ranch on a Mexican land grant and named it Rancho Tía Juana. The name derives from the Kumeyaay word…