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Claremore, Oklahoma
Claremore, Oklahoma

Claremore

Oklahoma, United States
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Claremore, city, seat (1907) of Rogers county (named for Will Rogers’s father, Clement Vann Rogers), northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., northeast of Tulsa. In 1880 John Bullette, a Delaware Indian, settled on the site, which he called Claremore for an Osage chief whose tribe once lived there. In 1882 it was moved from the banks of the Verdigris River to its present location to meet the Frisco Railroad, where pioneer settlement began. Artesian mineral waters, discovered in...

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