The small town of Guthrie hosts the Oklahoma celebration every year because it celebrates the birth of this town. On Aprill 22nd, 1889, Unassigned Lands in central Oklahoma were made available for non-Indians settlement and within a few hours thousands of founding citizens established Guthrie. A year later, the city was considered the capital of the Oklahoma territory and the people of Guthrie decided to commemorate such accomplishment annually.
Very negatively, peope ultimately blamed him for all of their problems and poor people who had to build very small homes named their homes after him, calling them "Hoover Homes"
