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…Edmond is home to the FIRST public school house, the FIRST church, the FIRST library, and the FIRST public institution of higher education in the Oklahoma Territory.

…some time before July 14th, 1887, the Santa Fe Railroad filed an official request with the government for ‘Edmond’ to be the name of mile 103 on the Santa Fe line.

…the land now known as Edmond was originally explored by Washington Irving in 1832 and described in his publication, A Tour on the Prairies.