Editing Sand Springs, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The city was founded in 1911, by [[philanthropist]] [[Charles Page]], a wealthy businessman in [[Oklahoma]]. He envisioned Sand Springs as a haven for orphans and widows. Page helped found and develop Sand Springs as a model city that included all components of a total community.<ref name="EOHC-SS">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SA017 Carl N. Gregory, "Sand Springs", ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133246/http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SA017 |date=2015-04-02 }}, Accessed May 6, 2011.</ref>

Page bought 160 acres of land in Tulsa County in 1908, intending to build a home for orphan children. The first 27 children, who had been abandoned by the Hook & Anchor Orphanage in Tulsa,<!-- what does this mean? did they throw the orphans out? --> were housed in a tent. This was soon replaced by a frame building large enough to house 50 children.

Page decided to form a model community, to be called Sand Springs, on land west of the children's home. He offered free land to any person who wished to move there, and a $20,000 bonus (the amount varied and he also offered free utilities) to companies that would relocate there. In 1911, Page created the [[Sand Springs Railway]], an interurban connecting Sand Springs to Tulsa. The townsite was laid out the same year.<ref name = "EOHC-SS"/> Sand Springs was incorporated as a city in 1912, with a population of 400.<ref name="Davenport">{{cite web|url=http://www.tulsaokhistory.com/cities/sandsprings.html|title=History of Sand Springs, OK|website=www.tulsaokhistory.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107112750/http://www.tulsaokhistory.com/cities/sandsprings.html|archive-date=7 November 2017}}</ref>

In 1911, Page also built the Sand Springs Power Plant, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Morrow Road. It anchored an area that Page intended to use for industrial development. Several significant additions were made to the facility, and it was the sole source of electric power for Sand Springs until 1947.<ref>National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. "Sand Springs Power Plant."</ref>

Some of the earliest manufacturing industries were: Kerr Glass Manufacturing; Commander Mills, Kerr, Hubbard and Kelley Lamp, and Chimney; Southwest Box Company; Empire Chandelier Company; and Sinclair Prairie Refining Company. Medical and social welfare institutions other than the Sand Springs Home included the Oakwood Sanitorium for nervous and mental diseases, Poole Hospital, the Salvation Army Maternity Home, and the Sand Springs School for the Deaf.<ref name = "Davenport" /> Sand Springs became a center of glass production in Oklahoma. Kerr Glass Manufacturing moved to Sand Springs from Chicago in 1913. It and the Alexander H. Kerr company, which made fruit jars, were the only glass companies remaining in business as recently as 1955.<ref name="EOHC-Glass">[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GL002.html Everett, Dianna. "Glass Manufacturing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609161551/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GL002.html |date=2011-06-09 }}, ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.</ref> In 1965, Sand Springs annexed [[Prattville, Oklahoma|Prattville]], on the south side of the [[Arkansas River]], an event that would explain the large jump in population in the 1960s.<ref name="EOHC-SS" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Service|first=World's own|title=Sand Springs timepiece|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/sand-springs-timepiece/article_a0785244-f415-538c-a15f-58daa92cd990.html|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Tulsa World|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Tour 10: Prattville {{!}} Sand Springs, OK - Official Website|url=https://sandspringsok.org/489/Historic-Tour-10-Prattville#:~:text=1965%20saw%20a%20great%20increase,than%20being%20absorbed%20by%20Tulsa.|access-date=2021-03-15|website=sandspringsok.org}}</ref>

In 1935, Commander Mills' workers picketed against purported incompliance by mill administration following the passage of the [[National Labor Relations Act of 1935]]. Parleys between mill officials and workers were initiated February 14th, with unionized mill workers demanding full accordance with the act's codes and ordinances. The disagreement between mill officials and workers was over section 7-A of the N.R.A., stating that employees had the right to self organization. Mill officials disagreed, stating section 7-A was invalid by decree of the courts. On April 4th, a brawl between union and non-union workers broke out at the gates of Commander Mills, ending in several injuries and one arrest. The following month, multiple mill workers subsequently began with acts of violence and terrorism in retaliation against mill officials and non-union workers. Totaling eleven explosions (twelve attempts in total, one failed to explode), four shootings, and one assault, the criminal campaign lasted from May 5th to July 4th.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Museum Page (Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum: Feb. 2024 issue) |url=https://sandspringsok.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/273}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sand Springs Outlook (Sand Springs, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1935 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2145395/m1/1/zoom/?q=1935%20sand%20springs%20labor%20relations&resolution=1.5&lat=4889.545093526772&lon=3671.0683625441698#}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sand Springs Outlook (Sand Springs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1935 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2145396/m1/1/zoom/?q=July%2011%201935%20sand%20springs%20bomb&resolution=2&lat=4292.545454545456&lon=3221.999999999999}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sand Springs Outlook (Sand Springs, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1935 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2145392/m1/1/zoom/?q=July%2011%201935%20sand%20springs%20picket&resolution=2&lat=1891.7310897861717&lon=3398.669118636337}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sand Springs Outlook (Sand Springs, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1935 |url=https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2145390/m1/1/zoom/?q=1935%20sand%20springs%20march&resolution=2&lat=1235.500000000001&lon=1787.000000000001}}</ref>

Sand Springs Children's Home is still operating, caring for school-age children in a family-style setting, and with an Independent Living program for graduated students.<ref name=Home>{{cite web|url= https://tulsaworld.com/communities/sandsprings/ask-the-expert-how-does-sand-springs-home-financially-support-the-children-and-families-in/article_cd5a178b-39d3-5934-b849-e1d9a19d60b4.html |title= Ask The Expert: How does Sand Springs Home financially support the children and families in their care? |publisher= Corrie Luker, Sand Springs Leader (Tulsa World website), August 26, 2019|access-date=August 26, 2020}}</ref>  The facility supports Camp Charles, which is an eight-acre camp in [[Grove, Oklahoma|Grove]] on [[Grand Lake (Oklahoma)|Grand Lake]], where the kids get to camp, cookout, swim, ski and take boat rides.<ref name=Promise>{{cite web|url= https://tulsaworld.com/communities/sandsprings/news/a-promise-fulfilled-the-home-is-where-the-heart-is/article_afdef4a8-fec7-5dae-9eb1-819438b7c9ff.html |title=A Promise Fulfilled: 'The Home' is where the heart is |publisher=Kirk McCracken, Tulsa World, June 13, 2017|access-date=August 26, 2020}}</ref> The Charles Page Family Village, formerly known as the Widow's colony, provides duplex housing to 110 mothers and their children at no cost for rent, utilities or home maintenance.<ref name=Home />

An [[EF2 tornado]] hit Sand Springs on March 25, 2015, killing one resident, injuring 30 citizens, and damaging 50 mobile homes.<ref>{{cite web|last=US Department of Commerce|first=NOAA|title=Tulsa County, OK Tornadoes (1875-Present)|url=https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-county-ok-tulsa|access-date=2021-10-02|website=www.weather.gov|language=EN-US}}</ref>

On November 26, 2018, Clyde Boyd Middle School had a [[Carbon monoxide|CO]] leak. The leak started sometime during the morning. Between 11:15&nbsp;a.m. and 12:58&nbsp;p.m., five students went home ill, and between 1:15 to 1:35, seven more students became sick.<ref>{{cite web|last=Griffin|first=David|title=Middle School Students Treated After Sand Springs Carbon Monoxide Leak|url=https://www.newson6.com/story/5e35d30c2f69d76f62017bde/middle-school-students-treated-after-sand-springs-carbon-monoxide-leak|access-date=2021-10-02|website=www.newson6.com|language=en}}</ref> At approximately 2:27, an announcement on the intercom instructed all the students to "go to the new gym". Many students went to hospital from carbon monoxide poisoning. "There was no evidence of the presence of carbon monoxide in the 6th Grade Center". Over 50 students were sent to nearby hospitals. The school didn't have [[carbon monoxide detectors]] at the time, which the district said: "it'll resolve". The school was closed for several days while the problem was fixed.<ref>{{cite web|last=Griffin|first=David|title=Sand Springs School Still Closed After Carbon Monoxide Leak|url=https://www.newson6.com/story/5e35d2fd2f69d76f62017b7a/sand-springs-school-still-closed-after-carbon-monoxide-leak|access-date=2021-10-02|website=www.newson6.com|language=en}}</ref> The district has now installed proper carbon monoxide detectors.