Historical Marker Program

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Chickasaw Council House

Johnston County
Location: in Chickasaw Museum, 200 North Fisher, Tishomingo
Topics: American Indians; Government; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

A log cabin, now restored to near original condition, served as the official meeting place of Chickasaw leaders from 1856 until 1858 when a new brick building was constructed. Fire destroyed that building in 1890, and the final Chickasaw capitol, now the Johnston County Courthouse, was built in 1897.

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Emet

Johnston County
Location: Chickasaw White House
Sponsor(s): Letha Clark, Johnston County Historical Society
Topics: Education; Religion/Philosophy; Urban Development; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

One of the first towns established in Johnston County. Emet originated when the Chickasaw Council House was moved from Boggy Depot to this area, two miles east of the Pleasant Grove Mission in the early 1850s. The Pleasant Grove Mission School was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844 to serve the children of the Chickasaws.

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Oklahoma Farmers Union

Johnston County
Location: across the street from Johnston County Courthouse
Sponsor(s): Johnston County Historical Society
Topics: Agriculture; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Struggling farmers united to form Farmers Union at Point, Texas in 1902. Spreading into the Twin Territories, William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray helped establish the Indiahoma Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America.

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Wapanucka Academy

Johnston County
Location: at junction of OK-7 and OK-70
Material: Aluminum
Topics: American Indians; Education; Social/Cultural

The Chickasaw Council established this major educational effort for Chickasaw children in 1852. Near the ruins of the school is the grave of Mary C. Greenleaf, a teacher at the academy, who died in 1857.