Cherokee County

Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Cherokee County was created from the Cherokee Nation's Tahlequah District at the 1906 Constitutional Convention and named for the Cherokee Nation.

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Cherokee County

Elias Boudinot

Kulakenna "Buck" Watie, brother of Stand Watie, took the name of his benefactor, Elias Boudinot of New Jersey. After completing his education, Boudinot signed the Treaty of New Echota (Georgia)…

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Manard

Site of Manard settlement on bayou menard. Named for Pierre Menard (1766-1844). Menard, an early day fur trader, merchant and member of the Chouteau family, served as the first territorial gove…

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Park Hill Press

Established July 1837, Rev. S.A. Worcester, Sput. Over 25 million pages were printed in Indian languages and in English by 1861. Printers and translators where John F. Wheeler, John W. Candy, E…

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Riley's Chapel

In 1843, Reverend Thomas Bertholf built Riley's Chapel on a hill south of the Cherokee capital. The first annual Indian Mission Conference of the Methodist Church was held at the chapel on Octo…

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Tahlequah

Tahlequah was the capital of the Cherokee Nation until statehood and the closing of the Cherokee government. Oklahoma's first newspaper, the Cherokee Advocate, was printed here. The last Cherok…

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The Cherokee Advocate

As a tribute to Oklahoma's first legal newspaper, The Cherokee Advocate, was established in 1844 in a building approximately 100' from the location (of this maker.) The marker was de…

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The Grave of Mister Ed

Mister Ed. This monument was dedicated to the loving memory of Mr. Ed on Sunday, August 26, 1990. It is the result of a people of northeastern Oklahoma and Tulsa radio station Z104.5 FM. …

  1. County information from Wikipedia.
  2. Population from U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.