Editing Bartlesville, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Jacob Bartles, son-in-law of [[Lenape#Oklahoma|Delaware]] chief Charles Journeycake, moved from [[Wyandotte County, Kansas]], to [[Indian Territory]] in 1873. He settled first at Silver Lake, a natural lake south of the present city of Bartlesville. In 1874, he opened a trading post and post office on Turkey Creek, in what is now East Bartlesville. In the following year, he bought a grist mill on the [[Caney River]] and modified it to produce flour. Bartles then built a two-story general store and residence, and added a rooming house, a blacksmith shop and a livery stable. Other settlers soon moved into the immediate area, which was then called Bartles Town. In 1880, Bartles moved his Turkey Creek post office to this town. Bartles then provided the community with electricity, a telephone system and a water distribution system.<ref name = "EOHC-Bartlesville">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=BA026 May, Jon D. "Bartlesville." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Retrieved January 15, 2012.</ref>

Development of the present city began after William Johnstone and George B. Keeler opened a general store on the south side of the Caney River in 1884. The first newspaper, ''The Weekly Magnet'', began publication in March 1895. The town was incorporated in [[Indian Territory]] in January 1897. The town was surveyed and platted in 1898, and eighty acres were offered to the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad]] for a depot. The railroad, though its [[Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway]] subsidiary, reached the town in 1899.<ref name = "EOHC-Bartlesville"/>  The post office was moved from "North Bartlesville" in 1899. Bypassed by the railroad, Jacob Bartles moved his store to what became [[Dewey, Oklahoma]].<ref name = "EOHC-Bartlesville"/>

Bartlesville was also home to Frank Phillips (November 28, 1873 &ndash; August 23, 1950) who along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips Sr founded [[Phillips Petroleum]] in Bartlesville in 1917 and made Bartlesville the headquarters of [[Phillips 66]]. The new company began with assets of $3 million, 27 employees and leases throughout Oklahoma and [[Kansas]]<ref>''Phillips: The First 66 Years'', 1983, Phillips Petroleum Company, P. 19-20.</ref> but grew to become a multi-billion dollar oil company. Although Bartlesville is no longer the headquarters, the company still has many employees in the community. In 2002, Phillips Petroleum merged with [[Conoco Inc.|Conoco Oil Company]] and became [[ConocoPhillips]].

Bartlesville was originally a [[sundown town]] where African Americans were not allowed to live. By 1907, the restriction had been lifted, and newspapers noted the town's first natural death of an African American, a man named Robert McGee.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Manhattan Mercury|The Manhattan Nationalist]]|location=Manhattan, Kansas|date=August 15, 1907|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29073184/|via=Newspapers.com|quote=It was only a short time ago that negroes were not allowed to either live or die in Bartlesville.|title=Clipped from Manhattan Nationalist }}</ref>

In 1957, Bartlesville was the test site for the first experiment in [[Cable television in the United States|pay cable television]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Khawaja|first=Shehla|title=Bartlesville Telemovie Experiment Collection|url=http://www.cablecenter.org/content.cfm?id=1319|work=The Barco Library Archives|publisher=CableCenter.org|access-date=31 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928154824/http://www.cablecenter.org/content.cfm?id=1319|archive-date=2011-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Bartlesville Telemovie System debuted with the film ''[[The Pajama Game (film)|The Pajama Game]]'', starring Doris Day, and aired it to an audience of 300 homes. The headline of the September 4, 1957, issue of ''Variety'' read, "First-Run Films Now at Home". However, after only nine months of operation, on Friday, June 6, 1958, Telemovie signed off forever.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bradley |first1=Paul |title=Oklahoma crude: The story of the world's first pay-TV system |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1981-11-17_10_46/page/n161/mode/1up |access-date=14 June 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=17 November 1981}}</ref>

Bartlesville was struck by an [[Tornado outbreak of May 6–10, 2024#Hominy–Barnsdall–Bartlesville, Oklahoma|EF4 tornado]] that also heavily impacted [[Barnsdall, Oklahoma|Barnsdall]] on May 6, 2024. Debris cleanup and other recovery efforts were ongoing as of July 2024.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-oklahoma-aftermath-rebuilding-emotional-impacts/ |title=Communities grapple with tornado impacts long after attention fades: "Emotional rollercoaster" |last1=Malkoff |first1=Dave |first2=Samantha |last2=Wender |date=23 July 2024 |publisher=[[CBS]] }}</ref>