Editing Glenpool, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
[[File:Glenn_Pool_Historical_Marker.jpg|alt=Historical marker in Glenpool, Oklahoma noting the Glenn Pool oil discovery in 1905|left|thumb|293x293px|Historical marker in Glenpool, Oklahoma noting the Glenn Pool oil discovery in 1905]]
On November 22, 1905, [[wildcatter]]s, [[Robert Galbreath Jr.]] and Frank Chesley (along with, by some accounts, [[Charles Colcord]]), drilling for oil on farmland owned by [[Creek Indian]] Ida E. Glenn, created the first [[oil gusher]] in what would soon be known as the "[[Glenn Pool Oil Reserve|Glenn Pool]]". The discovery set off a boom of growth for the area, bringing in hordes of people: lease buyers, producers, millionaires, laborers, tool suppliers, drunks, swindlers, and newspeople. Daily production soon exceeded {{convert|120000|oilbbl}}. The nearby city of [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]] benefited from the production, and Glenpool calls itself the town that made Tulsa famous.<ref name="Tulsa World, June 16, 2011">{{cite web |url= http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=38&articleid=20110616_44_D2_ULNSuh328171&archive=yes |title= Tulsa World, June 16, 2011 |access-date= 2011-06-16 |archive-date= October 14, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121014130445/http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=38&articleid=20110616_44_D2_ULNSuh328171&archive=yes |url-status= live }}</ref>

By the end of 1906 a settlement consisting of twelve families had grown up nearby. In that year, the [[Midland Valley Railroad]] extended a track from [[Jenks, Oklahoma|Jenks]]. By 1907, nearly 3,000 people had moved to the area, but only about 500 people actually lived in the town in 1910. Lots were platted and a post office opened on January 31, 1908. The new community was renamed "Glenpool."<ref name="EOHC-Glenpool">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GL008 Carl N. Gregory,"Glenpool.  ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029090659/https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GL008 |date=October 29, 2019 }} (accessed October 13, 2013)</ref>

Sometime after the discovery, Ida Glenn and her husband, Robert, sold their farm and moved to [[California]].<ref>[http://newsok.com/glenn-pool-discovery-led-oil-boom-br-preservationists-are-trying-to-make-sure-the-impact-on-oklahoma-is-not-forgotten./article/2875009 Zizzo, David. NewsOK "Glenn Pool discovery led oil boom. Preservationists are trying to make sure the impact on Oklahoma is not forgotten."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507003047/http://newsok.com/glenn-pool-discovery-led-oil-boom-br-preservationists-are-trying-to-make-sure-the-impact-on-oklahoma-is-not-forgotten./article/2875009 |date=May 7, 2014 }} November 22, 2004. Retrieved May 6, 2014.</ref>

In the early days, Glenpool was on the route of the Sapulpa & Interurban Railway (“S&I”) streetcar/interurban line connecting to [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]] through [[Kiefer, Oklahoma|Kiefer]] and [[Sapulpa, Oklahoma|Sapulpa]], as well as south to [[Mounds, Oklahoma|Mounds]]; S&I subsequently went through a series of mergers and name changes, with only the Tulsa-to-Sapulpa portion continuing as the [[Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.american-rails.com/tulsa-sapulpa.html | title=Tulsa Sapulpa Union Railway | publisher=American-Rails.com | access-date=January 18, 2019 | archive-date=June 28, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628154044/http://www.american-rails.com/tulsa-sapulpa.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Population grew to 428 in 1920, but declined thereafter to 280 in 1950. A post-WWII building boom then pushed the population upward to 353 in 1960. During the 1970s and 1980s, [[urban sprawl]] of the city of Tulsa reached Glenpool, and the town became a bedroom suburb. It has been growing since. By 1970 the population had risen to 770, then to 2,706 in 1980.<ref name="EOHC-Glenpool" />

An annual celebration called "Black Gold Days" is a three-day, family-friendly event with food, music, arts and crafts, a carnival, and a parade.<ref name="Tulsa World, June 16, 2011" />   It commemorates the early years of Glenpool's history.