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| | Original Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma |
 | | The streets were named for prominent Cherokee families as Vann, Wilson, Scraper, etc. The avenues were named for the districts or counties into which the Cherokee Nation was divided, Sequoyah, Delaware, Canadian, etc. As a pioneer frontier town, Vinita was not long a `wild and woolley' west,. |
 | | Vinita has never been a boom town, but from a small beginning in 1872, it has steadily grown, keeping pace with the development of the surrounding country, until now it is a flourishing city of more than five thousand people. |
 | | Several years ago the State Legislature located the Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane at Vinita, and brick buildings were erected with sufficient capacity for taking care of 1000 patients. |
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