Events
Don King presents the history of Jenks Football
Saturday
January 10, 2026
10:30 AM
Jenks Library
If you like Jenks Trojan Football, you don’t want to miss Don King’s information on Trojan football. A prolific football researcher, Don has compiled a record book for the Trojans which he plans on updating this year.
Join us and relive some of the most exciting games of the Trojans!
For more history of Jenks football see the website: http://www.jenksfootballhistory.com/links.html
No December Library Event
due to scheduling conflicts the library is not available for us in December. Don King’s talk on Trojan football has been moved to January 10, 2026.
The future of Jenks with Mayor Cory Box
Saturday
November 15, 2025
10:30 AM
Jenks Library
Mayor Cory Box joins the Jenks America Museum & Historical Society at the Jenks library to give his views on the future of the City.
Mayor Box was elected to the Jenks City Council in April of 2017 and elected Mayor in 2021. He was relelected to another four year term this past April. He has great onsite to the government of Jenks and his talk will be very informative.
Back Roads and Front Porches
Saturday
July 19, 2025
10:30 AM
Jenks Library
523 W. B St.,
Jenks, OK
Vic Vreeland, a fourth generation Jenks Trojan will shere stories and times of early Jenks he has learned from his family. Vic will also share stories of Jenks' growth during his tenure on the City Council.
This will be a very informatiove talk and will be live streaming on the Jenks America Museum Facebook page.
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The History of Rentie Grove and Rentie Grove Baptist Church
Saturday
May 31, 2025
10:30 AM
Jenks Library
523 W. B St., Jenks, OK
Jenks High School graduat, Rev. John Green, JHS ‘67, will give us the hist of the Muskogee Freedman Community, which was located at 91st and Harvard and stretched to 81st and to Sheridan. John attended Kindergarden at Rentie Grove School and now pastors the relocated Rentie Grove Church which is over 100 years old.
Learn about Conservation and Restoration of Museum Object from a Professional
Elly Stewart Davis, Objects Coservator for Gilgrease Museum will share a behind the scene look at what a museum conservator soes.
Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the Jenks Library 10:30 AM
Events
A Conversation with Jenks Pioneers
Saturday
April 26, 2025
10:30 AM
Jenks Library
523 W. B St., Jenks, OK
Join us at the Jenks Library for an interviewe wih three lifelong Jenks residents. Creekmore, Larry Wasson, and J.D. Newland. These pioneers all were born in the 1930s and have lived in Jenks for their entire lives.
They will be asked to relate what it was like in Jenks when they were growing up and through the 1960s. Each one has compeling stories about Jenks and its families.
They are all very sharp and interesting people. You will be given a chance to ask questions and hear thier answers,
This event will be live streaming on Facebook on the Jenks America Museum & Historical Society page.
The Beginning of a City
February 15, 2025
10:30 AM
523 W. B St., Jenks, OK
Join us at the Jenks Library for a presentation on the founding of the City of Jenks. Dr. Eric Fox will talk about the first days of Jenks from Muskogee Nation to incorporation and the origin of the name Jenks.
Eric Fox has been a career public educator in Oklahoma for over three decades. He started as a teacher and coach in his hometown of Moore, OK where both sides of his family were some of the first to settle the Moore-Norman area after the Land Run of 1889. He moved to Tulsa and began teaching and coaching in 1993 where he thought a variety of social studies classes including Oklaroma history and Advanced Placement United States History.
He was a finalist for Oklahoma Teacher of the Year and later moved to an administrative position