Maps of Alsuma, Oklahoma

This is a 1955 United States Geographic Survey (U.S.G.S.) survey map of Alsuma and the surrounding area.  Note the dotted line which indicates the future possible roadway of Highway 169.  This map of Alsuma, Oklahoma is a very useful tool in disproving the content of articles I have read so far about Alsuma.  The accounts which I have read say that the blacks lived South of the railroad tracks and the whites to the North of them.  This map from the U.S. Geological Survey map from 1955 shows most of Alsuma’s structures as being North of the railroad tracks.

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This data could be useful if you were “friends” with a well-connected political official and knew that city maps of Tulsa already had in 1955 what would become the Mingo Valley Expressway A.K.A. Highway 169.  With that information land could be purchased cheaply as an investment which would pay off guaranteed within a few short years.  The Mingo Valley Expressway terminated at 51st Street for several years before it eventually was completed.  The area there grew quickly.

This Tulsa City Planning Commission map from 1955 show's the proposed area of development for the future Highway 169.  Note that it is placed more directly over and through Alsuma.

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The next two maps are current screen-shots from Google Maps. Note where the roadway has been placed.

Approximately below here the "E" is placed on the street marked "E. 46th Pl." is where the remaining church initially stood.  You can note its current placement at the top of this map at the curve of the street marked "S. 102 E. Ave."

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