Editing Major County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Upon statehood in 1907, Major County was created from the southern part of a territorial county.<ref name="majorpedia">Peterson-Veatch, Ross. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MA006 "Major County,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.</ref> Fairview, which had been settled following the [[Land Run of 1893]], was designated the county seat, and voters reaffirmed the choice on December 22, 1908.<ref name="fairviewpedia">Wilson, Linda D. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=FA007 "Fairview,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.</ref> The county commissioners rented office space until a brick courthouse was constructed.<ref name="fairviewpedia"/> A second courthouse, made of stone, was erected in 1928.<ref name="fairviewpedia"/>

Named for John Charles Major, a representative of the state's 1906 Constitutional Convention, the area was originally settled by large numbers of Kansas Mennonites.<ref name="majorpedia"/> One county town, Meno, received its name from an early leader of the [[Mennonite]] movement, Menno Simons.<ref name="majorpedia"/>

The county experienced "Black Sunday" dust storms on April 14, 1935.<ref name="ringwoodpedia">Peterson-Veatch, Ross. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RI009 "Ringwood,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.</ref>