Visit the Sod House Museum to celebrate the 50 years of preservation! On Saturday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m. Jack Baker, president of the OHS Board of Directors, will give a presentation about the history of the sod house and the Oklahoma Historical Society's efforts to preserve Oklahoma's only remaining sod house built by a homesteader.

At one time, thousands of sod houses dotted the plains of north America. This two-room soddy, built by Marshal McCully in August 1894, is the only remaining sod house in Oklahoma that was built by a homesteader. McCully took part in the largest of Oklahoma's land ru...