- Big Four School
Big Four School Located 3 miles north, was formed Mar. 17, 1920, by a special election vote to consolidate the districts of White Cap, Twilight, Wandell, and Bird Creek. The school graduated its first senior class in 1924, its last in 1968. It continued as a grade school until closing in May 1978 Sponsor Big Four Alumni Association Oklahoma Historial Society
Kingfisher county #school 
- Britton School/Science Hill
Britton School/Science Hill Established in 1911 and known as Science Hill. The school house was located one half mile east of this memorial. Later the name was chaged to Britton School in honor of the pioneer family, the church located at the same site served as a Grade School. First school enumeration done in June 1912 reported 18 families in the district designated as #108 of the Gracemont School System. Oscar E Bare was School Clerk. Britton one of the oldest schools in this area when it was ...
Caddo county #memorial #school 
- Burney Institute
Burney Institute. Site in vicinity south. Established in 1854 by Chickasaw Council, Daugherty Colbert, Chief; David Burney, Joel Kemp, George D. James, A. V. Brown, school trustees. Opened as school for Chickasaw girls 1859, under supervision of Cumberland Presby. Bd., Rev. Robert S. Bell and wife, teachers. Name changed to Chickasaw Orphan Home and Manual Labor School, 1887
Marshall county #chickasaw #indian #orphanage #school 
- Cantonment
Cantonment Site about 2 mi. N. Post established on Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, March 6, 1879, by 23rd Inf., under Col. Richard Doge. He completed his book "Our Wild Indians" there. Post abandoned in June, 1882. Stone buildings were part of Mennonite Mission. Rev. S.S. Haury, Seupt., for many years: U.S. Indian School, 1897: Indian Agency, 1903
Blaine county #army #cheyenne-arapaho #post #school 
- Cantonment, Old Ft. Crossing
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Blaine county #army #cheyenne-arapaho #post #school - Chouteau's Post
Oldest permanent American settlement in state. Grew out of Chaouteau's furn trade at St. Louis, with Osages after they settled in this region in 1802 from Missouri. Improvements here in 1817 became residence of Col. A. P. Chouteau, West Point grad., noted in western U.S. official life and for many posts in Indian trade.
Mayes county #french #indian #osage #school #settlement #trade - Coalgate School Gymnasium--Auditorium
National Register of Historical Places
Coal county #nrhp #school 
- Cordell Academy
Site three blocks east. Opened in 1906, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Churche, this pioneer school taught the youth here in Christain living. Its motto was "Labor omnia vicit." Presidents to its close in 1911 were: Myron B. Keator, Dr. Jacobe Poppen, Rev. C. H. Spaan. Teachers included Harold C. Amos, Laura B. Hilger and Valonia Corley.
Washita county #school - Elliott Academy
Established here in 1869 as Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Presbyterian Board of Missions as boarding school for children of Choctaw Freedmen. Academy succeeded small school begun in 1860 by ex-slave and Presbyterian Minister Charles W. Stewart to serve numerous black families who had settled here after Civil War. Name changed in 1912 after David Elliott gave funds for new dormitory in memory of his wife, Alice Lee. Students cleared and operated large farm to help support school. Hundreds of students trained at academy before closer ...
McCurtain county #choctaw #presbyterian #school 
- Euchee Mission Boarding School
Euchee Mission Boarding School In 1891, the Presbyterian Mission Board began plans to established a school among the Euchee Indians in this area. Much credit for founding the school is due to Samuel Brown, Noah Gregory, Henry Land, and William Sapulpa. Their work influenced the Creek council to appropriate money for the school from tribal funds. Buildings were constructed and the school opened in the fall of 1894 with about fifty students. At first the school was coeducational and had only two dormitories and a three-room schoolhouse ...
Creek county #euchee #indian #mission #school 
- Eureka
Eureka Consolidated District #12 1908 - 1969 Eureka was established in 1908 with 18 square miles, the high school was started in 1919 when Center, Lincoln, and one half of Pleasant View were consolidated. In 1923, the Nabisco, Happy Flat, and East Banner districts were added and a new building was built on the William' place. The school burned in 1935. Land was purchased by private donations and a new building was built in 1936 at a cost fo $64,123. A P.W.A. grant was awarded for $28,636. Phoenix consolidated with Eureka in 1947 ...
Texas county #school 
- Fleetwood School
Fleetwood School Built in 1880's on this site just south of the road. This bulding served as the school and community church for the Methodist and Baptist. The school was closed in 1927 as a high school and the students attended the Terral School. The grammar school here clossed in 1933. Historical Socity of Fleetwood Terral Indian ...
Jefferson county #pioneer #school 
- Friendship School
Friendship School Dedicated in memory of parents, teachers and friends who thought us the true meaning of friendship, scholarship, sportsmanship, leadership and honor. For more than sixty years Friendship schools meet the education needs and were the heart of the Friendship community. In 1899, soon after old Greer County was declared to be a part of Oklahoma Territory and opened for homesteading. Clabber Flat school and after was called Friendship by some of those the school was the original home ...
Jackson county #community #monument #school - Goodland Mission
Begun 1848 by Rev. John Lathrop of American Bd. of Foreign Miss. Rev. O. P. Start, Supt. (1850), built first church. Mrs. Stark opened first school there. Others in the service through 10 years included W. J. B. Lloyd, J. P. Gibbons, Bella M. Gibbons, Silas Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. B McCann, Ebenezer Hotchkins, S. Bailey Spring, and E. D. Miller.*
Choctaw county #choctaw #presbyterian #school - Hillside Mission
Established by Rev. John Murdock, under auspices of Friends Society, 1882. This noted school was attended by both Indian and white children. In this vicinity, was home of Wm. C. Rogers, last elected principle chief of Cherokee Nation, 1903 to 1917. His grave, and that of George Tyner, Cherokee, are in Mission Cemetery.
Osage county #church #mission #school 
- In Memory of those who perished in the Babbs Fire
In Memory of those who perished in the Babbs Fire On Dec. 24, 1924 At a Christmas tree celebration Thirty six persons lost their Lives
Kiowa county #christmas #fire victims #memorial #school #tombstone 
- Independence School
Independence School 1921 to 1953 On this site, the knowledge, values and friendships that were instilled into student made good citizens with a desire to serve humanity. Superintendents N.P. Chandler 1922, O. Simpson 1923, P.H. Evert 1924, E.J. Phillips 1925, N.P. Chandler 1926, J.C. McConkey 1927, J.B. Conrad 1928-1929, B.R. Nichols 1930-1932, A.J. Bishop 1933-1935, O.P. Mongomery 1936, H. Harris 1937-1939, E. Gartrell 1940-1942, F. Barr 1943-1953
Custer county #school 
- Jabbok Orphanage & School Marker
Jabbok Faith Missionary Training Home & Orphanage. A monument 1/2 mi. S. marks site of orphanage est'd 1901 by Abe Eisenhower, uncle of Dwight Eisenhower. Sponsored by local Brethren in Christ Church, it later became Jabbok Bible School. The surrounding cropland is still farmed for missionary purposes.
Custer county #church #orphanage #school 
- Jabbok Orphanage & School Memorial
Jabbok Faith Missionary Training Home, Orphanage and Jabbok Bible Academy In 1899 Mr. and Mrs Abe Eisenhower claimed a homestead on this site. In 1901, the Eisenhowers received a patent from the Territory of Oklahoma for the purposes of: "The preaching of the gospel in every land to maintain a missionary home and bible school for the training of missionary workers for home and foreign mission work; to maintain an orphan's home. A holiness school; and for the publication of Christian religious literature." An orphanage was ...
Custer county #church #orphanage #school 
- Kingfisher College
Kingfisher College Founded by Congregationalists, this college--site one mile north, 1890-1922, achieved renown in education and character-building. It lives on at the University of Oklahoma as the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics.
Kingfisher county #school - Kinta High School
Listed in the National Register of Historical Places
Haskell county #school 
- La Casa School
La Casa was located five miles south of this marker. It was formed by consolidating three schools: Mesquite, Star Valley and Bearden. Classes began in a new building after Christmas 1925, with the first graduate in 1928. La Casa was the nucleus of most community activities. An era ended in 1957. Due to dwindling school attendance, La Casa closed with students attending Gould and Hollis. Top of marker: Image of school building and Buffalo school mascot. Bottom of marker: La Casa Alumni Association - 2002 Oklahoma ...
Harmon county #school 
- Lake Creek Marker
This monument is dedicated to the pioneers who settled the community. Their strength and courage enabled them to survive adverse conditions, giving us a goodly heritage. Most of the land in for the Lake Creek community was settled by homesteaders, starting in 1898. In 1918, existing schools of Fairview, Oak Grove, Pleasant Valley and the headquarters combined to from Union Graded School one year later, Union Graded School was changed to Lake Creek Consolidated No. 8. Construction of the stone and brick two-story school building began in ...
Greer county #school 
- Northwestern Academy
Northwestern Academy Carrier, Oklahoma Territory 1898 Northwestern Academy was financed in part and sponsored by the Congregational Home Missionary Society of Boston, Massachusetts, through the initiative, leadership and dedication of a few Carrier citizens and contributions of money, material and labor by many. The main building was about 220 yards north and 580 yards east of this spot, in the center of a 10-acre campus donated by Miss Zue Carrier from the homestead she staked in the Race for Claims in the Cherokee Strip ...
Garfield county #school 
- Oak Lawn School
Oak Lawn School Established 1908 Photo take early 1920's School District 273
Stephens county #community #school #wpa 
- Port School
Port School 1915 - 1922 By the fall term of 1892-93, 31 school districts had been organize in "H," now Washita Co. Wood district 3, containing 10.25 sq. mi., which was the beginning of the largest consolidated school in Okla. and possibly the nation (over 88 sq. mi.). School was held in a dugout. Albert Peachy and Nick Bowie teachers. Enrollment was 25. In 1902, a three room frame structure was built east of Port cemetery and the name was change to Port. Enrollment was 75 that year. In 1913, orange and black where selected as ...
Washita county #school 
- Red Bluff Community Church and School
Red Bluff Church and School first opened in 1900. The church was the first missionary Baptists in Washita County; functioning until 1946. The Red Bluff School also served the community until that time; acting as a social center. The church building was erected in 1917 on the farm of the W. B. Druce family.
Washita county #school 
- Riverside School
Riverside School Begun by U.S. Quaker Agents 1871 This school opened at the Indian agency on Sugar Creek with 8 pupils. A new building was erected as a boarding school in 1872 for Wichita and Caddo children. Fire in 1878 destoryed the school. It soon reopened in a new building here on the Washita and continues as the oldest boarding school in the United States Indian Service. Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Highway Commission 1974
Caddo county #indian #school 
- Rocky School Memorial
Rocky School Memorial. Includes information on the History of Rocky, Orange Blossom, Rocky Public School, Rocky Cooperative, and The State Bank of Rocky.
Washita county #school 
- Ron School
Ron School was located 3 miles east and 1/2 mile south of this marker. The school was formed in the spring of 1939 by a special election to consolidate schools of Dryden, McKnight, Metcalf, and Tearcross. The first senior class was 1939 and the last class to gradute was 1964 when Ron School was consolidated with Hollis Public Schools.
Harmon county #school 
- Rush Springs School
RUSH SPRINGS SCHOOL Dist #68 was established 12-Dec-1907 on Highway 81, south of Chickasha. Named for the Rush Creek Springs
Grady county #school 
- Site of Babbs Switch Tragic School Fire
Site of Babbs Switch Tragic School Fire On Dec. 24, 1924 35 people lost their lives while attending a Christmas party in a one room frame school house. The fire was started by a candle on a Christmas tree. A school building was built here in memorial and a model to point the way to safer county schools the nation over. The school was discontinued in 1943. Was dismantled and sold. In Memory of W. T. Curtis, Mrs. W. T, Curtis, Edna Curtis, Francis Curtis, T. C. Coffey, Mrs. T. C. Coffey, Maudie Coffey, Orley Coffey, Dow ...
Kiowa county #memorial #school - Smithville
Formerly Hatobi (Man-Killer in Choctaw), renamed in 1890 for pioneer Joshua Smith. Center of Choctaw settlement and activity in early period. Olsom training school here 1921-33. Named for Choctaw minister Willis Folsom, W.B. Hubbell superintendent. Sealey Methodist Chapel built on Folsom campus 1925, named for generous donor and former student Sealey Alexander, Salt Link in vicinity inspired name of Big Lick Presbyterian church hear since 1830's
McCurtain county #choctaw #church #school #town - Spencer Academy
Noted school for boys, established by Choctaw Nation, 1841; named for John C. Spencer, U.S. Sec. of War. Students how were later prominent leaders including Coleman E. Nelson, Allen Wright, Jackson McCurtain, Charles S. Vinson, B.F. Smallwood, Jefferson Gardner, Simon T. Dwight, Eliphalet N. Wright, Homer Davis.*
Choctaw county #choctaw #school 
- St. Johns School / Osage Indian Boys
St. John's school for Osage indian boys 1888-1913 8 mi n. Est. October 1888 along Hominy Creek by St. Katharine Drexel and the bureau of catholic indian missions, after repeated requests by Osage tribe for a catholic school. Original log compound replaced by four-story stone building in 1893. Operated by franciscan sisters (1888-1907) and christian brothers (1907-1913). Sponsored by the Osage Tribal Council, Oklahoma Historical Society 240-2000
Osage county #catholic #church #indian #osage #school - St. Joseph Convent and Academy
National Register Of Historic Places
Logan county #building #catholic #convent #hrhp #school - St. Louis School for Osage Indian Girls
ST. LOUIS SCHOOL FOR OSAGE INDIAN GIRLS 1887 - 1949 One-half Mi SW. Est. 1887 by St. Katharine Drexel and Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, D.C. Original frame structure located near Main and Palmer burned in 1889, replaced here 1890 by a four-story stone building. Operated by Franciscan Sisters (1887-1915), Loretto Sisters (1915-42), and Blessed Sacrament Sisters (1942-49).
Osage county #osage #school - Stigler School Gymnasium - Auditorium
Listed in the National Register of Historical Places
Haskell county #school 
- Tacola / Cloud Chief School
Tacola / Cloud Chief School Created in 1892, Tacola school met in a dugout until 1894 when a 30' x 50' bldg. was built 1/2 mi. SW of this marker. In 1918, the school was moved to a new bldg. north of this marker. During the 1921 consolidation of school districts, the name changed to Cloud Chief. The high school moved to Cordell in 1958 and the school closed in 1960
Washita county #school - Union Mission
Union Mission was the site of the first school to be established in what would become the state of Oklahoma. It was also the location of the first printing press in the state that arrived in 1836. Missionaries provided education to the Osage people (and smaller numbers from other tribes) beginning around 1820 and continuing to 1833. At one time, the mission included about a dozen log cabins, a large barn, a mill, a spring house, a storehouse, the school, a dining hall and kitchen, and various other small buildings. Today, only a few ...
Mayes county #church #nrhp #osage #print #school 
- Washita School
(First Marker on North side) Site of Washita School (Red Brick) Grades Primary-Twelfth 1923-1955 Gymnsium (Gray Stone) WPA 1939-1996 "Washita Eagles" Sponsored by Washita School Teachers and Students Historical Information Deposited with Oklahoma Historical Society 1997 W H S (Second Marker on South side) Washita, Oklahoma *Took it's name from the Washita River" *"Washita" is from two Choctaw words. "Owa" and "Chita" meaning "Big Hunt" *The Wachita Indian Agency was nearby prior ...
Caddo county #indian agency #memorial #school #town 
- Wheelock Mission
Established 1832 by Rev. Alfred Wright and wife Harriet, who served as missionaries to Choctaws over 30 years. Rev. Wright, physician and linguist, helped develop written Choctaw language, translated gospels and much educational materials into Choctaw, Stone church here completed 1846, oldest such building in Oklahoma. School begun by writes became boarding school for Choctaw girls; made part of Choctaw National school system 1842, closed 1955. Rev. Wright dies 1853; burried adjacent cemerery; Rev. John Edwards in charge of mission 1853-61.
McCurtain county #choctaw #church #mission #school 
- Wyatt Cemetery and Hill School
Wyatt Cemetery and Hill School Hill School was located 4 miles south, 1 west of Gotebo on the Edward Hill land. It was a one room school from 1907 to 1939. The school was the site of the community activities, such as spelling and ciphering matches, standing room only at the box suppers and Christmas programs. Heat was furnished by the big black stove in the middle of the room, and kerosene lamps provided the light. The thriving community dwindled away when the school was closed. Nearby, on a plot of land donated by Buren Wyatt from a ...
Kiowa county #cemetery #school
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