Historical Marker Program

Fort Arbuckle

Garvin County
Location: about seven miles west of Davis on OK-7
Coordinates: 34.521511, -97.247631
Material: Other (Stone with bronze plaque)
Sponsor(s): Ardmore Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Established by Captain Randolph Marcy of the US Fifth Infantry in April 1851. Major William H. Emory of the US Fifth Cavalry arrived as commanding officer in 1859. The post was abandoned to Confederate forces in May 1861. Reoccupied after the Civil War and supported General Philip H. Sheridan’s campaign against Plains Indian tribes during the winter of 1868. The fort was abandoned in 1870. The Initial Point of the Indian Meridian is located one mile south of this marker’s location.

Fort Arbuckle

Garvin County
Location: on OK-7 in Hoover (about seven miles west of Davis)
Coordinates: 34.521425, -97.247501 (approximate)
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Captain Randolph Marcy established Fort Arbuckle in April 1851. From this major army post, Marcy and George B. McClellan, later the commander in chief of the Army of the Potomac, set out to explore the source of the Red River in 1852. The post was abandoned to Confederate forces in May 1861. After being garrisoned by US troops after the Civil War, Fort Arbuckle was abandoned in 1870. The Initial Point for land surveys is one mile south at the intersection of Indian Meridian and Baseline.

Wiley Post

Garvin County
Location: on OK-19 at intersection with Williams Street in Maysville
Coordinates: 34.817018, -97.408736
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Wiley Post Centennial Committee
Topics: Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Social/Cultural; Transportation

Wiley Hardeman Post, born on November 22, 1898, in Texas, moved to Oklahoma at an early age and grew up on a farm near Maysville. Post and navigator Harold Gatty flew around the world in eight days in 1931. In 1933 Post became the first person to fly solo around the world. He designed a special pressure suit to experiment with high-altitude flying and is credited with discovering the jet stream. Post and fellow Oklahoman Will Rogers died in an aviation accident on August 15, 1935. Post is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City.