Your tour of the Mattie Beal Home will transport you back in time to the dynamic early years of the 20th century when both Oklahoma and the city of Lawton were born. In 1901 a spunky, gregarious young Kansas woman, Mattie Beal, registered for the Oklahoma land lottery. Mattie Beal was the second name drawn for the Lawton district from among over 164,000 registrants, and she won the right to claim a valuable 160-acre allotment, the land on which the home now sits. She soon subdivided some of her land into affordable lots for new settlers and donated land for Beal Heights Presbyterian Church and a school, and seven acres of land for parks. Mattie Beal became a beloved figure in Lawton for her philanthropy and civic spirit.