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The Annual Chicken Noodle Dinner will be at the Watonga Christian Church on March 20, 2020 from 5 pm to 7 pm. Tickets are on sale now at the museum during business hours and with any member of the Friends of the Ferguson. They are $10 for adults and children 12+, $5 for 4-12 years old and children under 3 years old eat free. The proceeds from this fundraiser go to the Friends of the Ferguson Home Museum for the support of the museum.

The Friends of the Ferguson Home Museum mission is to restore the 1901 home and interpret the life of T.B. Ferguson as the 6th Territorial Governor of Oklahoma, and his influences on the territory. The Friends of the Ferguson is a non-profit organization that seeks to preserve T.B. and Elva Ferguson’s home, the first City of Watonga jailhouse, and Remount Station as Historic Land Marks and interpret the early day lifestyles of Governor and Mrs. Ferguson while he was 6th Territorial Governor of Oklahoma, their influence on the territory, newspaper owners and pioneers from the establishment of the Cheyenne and Arapaho land opening in 1892 up to 1947.