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As the city expanded, local industries and businesses grew. The population stood at 23,283 in 1930. During a period of steady growth, several attempts were made to move the courthouse from Tecumseh to Shawnee. Finally, on December 19, 1930, citizens voted to move the county seat to Shawnee.
Shawnee ( Meskwaki: Shânîheki [4]) is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 29,857 in 2010, a 4.9 percent increase from the figure of 28,692 in 2000. [6]
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The town itself was founded in 1893, when the area was opened to white settlement. The railroad arrived in 1895, and the city prospered with the oil boom of the 1920s. Farming, stock raising, oil production, and small diversified industries are basic to the economy.
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For the first few years of the new century, Shawnee was in the midst of a boom that came close to keeping pace with Oklahoma City's growth. Located in the heart of cotton, potato, and peach country, Shawnee quickly became an agricultural center. Reportedly, Shawnee had the largest cotton-seed oil mill in the Southwest.
Eric Standridge and Sierra Juarez. Updated: Jun 24, 2022 1:49 PM EDT. Main Street in Shawnee, Oklahoma, looking west in the late 1800s. The History of Shawnee, Oklahoma. The history of the town of Shawnee, Oklahoma, has its origins long before statehood.
On July 11, 1832, Alexander S. Johnson is born at the Methodist Mission, the first white child born in Kansas Territory. He is later to be one of Shawnee's city founders.
Missouri joined the Union in 1821 and, after the Treaty of St. Louis in 1825, the 1,400 Missouri Shawnees were forcibly relocated from Cape Girardeau to southeastern Kansas, close to the Neosho River. During 1833, only the Black Bob's band of Shawnee resisted.
