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==Attractions== The Cimarron Heritage Center Museum includes exhibits and artifacts on dinosaurs, the Santa Fe Trail, and other local historic sites.<ref name=Travel>{{cite web|url= https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.1516 |title= Cimarron Heritage Center Museum|publisher=TravelOK.com|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref> The museum grounds showcase a restored Santa Fe Depot, a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, a windmill exhibit, buggies, and more.<ref name=Travel/> The grounds are home to "Cimmy" the "Cimarronasaurus", a metal sculpture 65 ft long and 35 ft tall, said to be a life-sized ''Apatosaurus'' dinosaur cut-out calculated from the bones of a dinosaur that was actually excavated in western Cimarron County in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1016 |title= Boise City, Oklahoma: Life-Size Metal Dinosaur|publisher=RoadsideAmerica.com|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.22833 |title=Cimmy the Dinosaur|publisher=TravelOK.com|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref> [[File:Santa Fe Train Caboose in Boise City, Oklahoma.jpg|thumb|Santa Fe train caboose in Boise City, Oklahoma]] The Cimarron County Chamber of Commerce is located in a red train caboose.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.facebook.com/Cimarron-County-Chamber-of-Commerce-155906337767210/?ref=page_internal |title= Cimarron County Chamber of Commerce|publisher=Facebook|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref> Out front of the caboose is featured the Boise City Bomb Memorial, commemorating the accidental 1943 aerial bombardment.<ref>The memorial may have been taken in, temporarily or permanently. {{cite web|url= https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/boise-city-ok/points-of-interest/boise-city-bomb-memorial |title= Boise City Bomb Memorial|publisher=Roadtrippers|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref> {{main|National Register of Historic Places listings in Cimarron County, Oklahoma}} [[Autograph Rock Historic District]], containing rutted traces of the Cimarron Cutoff of the [[Santa Fe Trail]], features Autograph Rock, inscribed with the names of travelers from the 1850-1865 era.<ref name=ok>{{cite web|title=Autograph Rock Historic District |url=http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/shpo/shpopic.asp?id=94000318 |publisher=Oklahoma |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622184418/http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/shpo/shpopic.asp?id=94000318 |archive-date=2010-06-22 }}</ref> Access to the site can be granted at the Cimarron Heritage Center Museum.<ref name=Travel/> The separate [[Cold Spring and Inscription Rock Historic District]] similarly features Inscription Rock with Santa Fe Trail travelers' names inscribed, but also has a former camp site with a stone building that served as a stagecoach station, and a stone spring house.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/shpo/shpopic.asp?id=94000317 |title=Cold Spring and Inscription Rock Historic District |publisher=Oklahoma |access-date=2013-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620122935/http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/shpo/shpopic.asp?id=94000317 |archive-date=2010-06-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Cimarron County Courthouse]] was designed by M.C. Parker in the [[Classical Revival architecture|Classical Revival]] and [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] styles and constructed in red brick. It opened in 1926 after the previous wood-frame courthouse burned down.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Cimarron County Courthouse|url={{NRHP url|id=84002988}}|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=October 27, 2012|format=PDF|date=July 18, 1984}}</ref>
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