Vernon
The recognition of founding Vernon is primarily given to Edward P. McCabe, the founder and promoter of Langston. The town, located eight miles southwest of Muskogee, was a rural farming community. Vernon, founded in 1895, was the site of one of the first Rosenwald schools in Oklahoma and had its own post office built in 1920.
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