Frederick Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce

Description

The Frederick area was among the last of the Oklahoma Territory Land to be opened to settlement. Frederick was originally two towns. Gosnell was one half mile north of Hazel, and both were established in 1901 when the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservation was opened to settlement. In 1902 the towns combined in order to both take advantage of the coming of the Blackwell, Enid and Southern Railroad. The town was named Frederick after the son of a railroad executive. Gosnell received the depot, and the residents of Hazel moved north to the new town of Frederick. In 1962 a flagpole was erected in Pioneer Park, fulfilling the agreement between Gosnell, Hazel and the railroad. In the spring of 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt visited Frederick to meet with Jack Abernathy, the famed barehanded wolf hunter, and introduced the area to tourism and its recreational value. In 1907 the City of Frederick was incorporated, Oklahoma became a state and the Katy Railroad came to Frederick. By 1915, Frederick had 15 miles of sidewalks and crossings, and 75 miles of wide, graded, rolled streets. The first paved streets were laid in 1918. During World War II, Frederick was the site of the last B-25 training base. In 1953, the base was turned over to the City of Frederick, and is now the Frederick Municipal Airport and Industrial Park.

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