Location of Marker: Two miles west of U.S. Highway 283, at site of old Grand, ten miles south of Arnett, Ellis County.
Organized after the opening of the Cheyenne-Arapaho lands in 1892, Grand served as the county seat of Day County, Oklahoma Territory, from 1895 until statehood in 1907.
The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
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