Fort Sill Military Reservation and National Historic Landmark
The Fort Sill Military Reservation is the headquarters of the U.S. Army Field Artillery. The area was established in 1869 to control local Indian tribes. The Old Stone Corral contains frontier relics including military and pioneer horse-drawn vehicles, Indian teepees and replicas of a trader's store and blacksmith shop. The museum provides education and training on the history of the Army's Field Artillery and on Fort Sill.
Missile Park
Fort Sill became the home of the U.S. Field Artillery Center and School in 1911. The Missile Park exhibits U.S. Army missiles and rockets from 1944 to the present time.
Fort Sill Museum
Fort Sill Museum presents the history of the American Indian territory and the U.S. field artillery.
Museum of the Great Plains
The Museum of Great Plains in Lawton features natural history exhibits, a fur-trading fort and a train depot with locomotive. The museum contains an artifact collection including over 570,000 primary documents and 80,000 images.
Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center
701 NW Ferris Avenue Lawton OK 73505
580.353.0404
Monday through Friday 8 am to 5pm
Saturday 10am to 2pm
The museum plays host to traveling exhibits which have included Comanche artists from the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko OK and the "Native Words, Native Warriors" exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
Historic Mattie Beal Home
1008 SW 5th Street
580.678.3156
Thursday through Sunday Noon to 3pm
The Historic Mattie Beal Home, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a 14-room Greek Revival-style mansion constructed in 1909. In the land lottery of 1901, in which the federal government opened southwest Oklahoma for settlement, the second name drawn was Mattie Beal. This determined young woman from Wichita KS chose her 160-acre allotment south of the Lawton town site. Instant fame was hers and she received hundreds of marriage proposals but it was the local lumberyard owner Charles Payne who stole her heart; they married in 1902
Holy City of the Wichitas
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
580.429.0855
Monday through Saturday 8am to 5pm
Sunday 2 pm to 5pm including holidays
A natural amphitheatre is the setting for the nation's longest running Easter passion play, The Prince of Peace; featuring 22 native granite buildings as a replica of Jerusalem City. In 1926, The Holy City started as an Easter Passion Play. In 1939, over 225,000 spectators viewed the production. This spectacular event is held Palm Sunday Eve and Easter Eve each year.
