Editing Rogers County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
[[File:View of Claremore with Rogers Tomb.jpg|thumb|left|View of Claremore's skyline]]
According to the ''[[Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture]]'', the Arkansas Band of the [[Osage Nation]] settled in the Three Forks area (the junction of the [[Arkansas River]], [[Grand River (Oklahoma)|Grand River]], and [[Verdigris River]] during the 1760s and established two villages called ''Pasuga'' and ''Pasona'' in what is now Rogers County. Pasona was near an ancient earthwork platform mound near the Verdigris River. It was later called Claremore Mound, to honor Osage chief Claremore (aka ''Gra-mon'' in Osage, meaning Arrow Going Home; his name was first recorded by French colonists as ''Clermont''.)<ref name="EOHC-RogersCounty" />

In 1828, Cherokee bands who had left the Southeast early exchanged their Arkansas land for an area that included present-day Rogers County. This had been ceded by the Osage in 1825 under a treaty to the United States.<ref name="EOHC-RogersCounty"/>  The area became organized by the Cherokee Nation as the Saline District of their portion of [[Indian Territory]]. In 1907 the western portion of that district was organized as the Cooweescoowee District.<ref name="EOHC-RogersCounty"/>

Upon statehood in 1908, the district was designated as a county named Cooweescoowee. Residents supported renaming the county in honor of Clement Vann Rogers, an early Cherokee settler and prominent rancher here.<ref name="EOHC-RogersCounty"/>

Shortly after statehood, [[Eastern University Preparatory School]] was established on College Hill, just west of Claremore, Oklahoma.<ref name="eohc-hatley">Paul B. Hatley, [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RO020  "Rogers State University"], ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 5, 2015.</ref>  The [[Oklahoma Military Academy]], established in 1919, took over the facility.<ref name="eohc-hatley"/>  In 1971 the academy was closed and the facility was converted for use by Claremore Junior College.<ref name="eohc-hatley"/>  As a four-year curriculum and graduate departments were added, the state legislature renamed the institution as Rogers State College and Rogers University, before settling in 1998 on the current Rogers State University.<ref name="eohc-hatley"/>