Historical Marker Program

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48 Milepost Old State Line

Le Flore County
Location: on OK-1 just west of Arkansas border
Topics: Military; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Transportation; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

This site was forty-eight miles from Fort Smith on the military road that ran south to Texas.

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Baptists at Cowlington

Le Flore County
Location: on US-59 south of Sallisaw near junction with OK-9
Coordinates: 35.257518, -94.761463
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Baptist Historical Commission
Topics: Religion/Philosophy; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

A Baptist church organized in a brush arbor here in 1837. This church and seven other churches formed the Short Mountain Association in 1844, the first and oldest Anglo Baptist Association in Oklahoma.

Note: This marker could not be located and is presumed to no longer exist.

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Butterfield Overland Mail Route

Le Flore County
Location: south of Coal Creek on US 271, approximately 1/2 mile south of the junction of US 271 and OK 31
Coordinates: 35.184427, -94.672995
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Eastern Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: Transportation; Westward Expansion 1803–1861

The famous Butterfield Overland Mail Route crossed Coal Creek near here. The route, traversing 192 miles in Indian Territory from Fort Smith to Colbert’s Ferry on the Red River, had 12 stage stations. Coaches made the trip twice a week each way from 1858 to 1860.

Note: This marker could not be located and is presumed missing.

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Chief Mosholatubbee

Le Flore County
Location: in Hall Cemetery south of Cameron on Raymond Adams Road
Material: Granite
Topics: American Indians; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Chief Mosholatubbee was one of three Choctaw chiefs who signed early treaties with the United States, including the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which provided for the removal of the Choctaws to Indian Territory. He moved with his people to a new home off the Fort Towson Road, north of Sugar Loaf Mountain, and died August 3, 1838. In his honor, the Choctaw Nation region from the Arkansas River to the Winding Stair Mountains was called Mosholatubbee District.

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First Military Road

Le Flore County
Location: on US-271 on Winding Stair Mountain about eight miles northeast of Talihina
Material: Granite
Topics: Government; Indian and Frontier Trade; Mass Communication; Military; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Transportation

Here, between 1874 and 1890, supply wagons, a daily stagecoach and the US mail moved over this earliest-known trail from Dodge City, Kansas, to Fort Elliott, Texas. The fort, first known as Cantonment on Sweetwater was established after the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne attack on Adobe Walls in June of 1874.

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Fort Smith/Fort Towson Military Road

Le Flore County
Location: on OK-1 east of US-271 junction
Material: Aluminum
Topics: Indian and Frontier Trade; Military; Settlement Patterns; Transportation; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Over rugged terrain and through raging streams, Colonel Robert Bean blazed this frontier road which was constructed by Captain John Stuart in 1832. It was used to carry supplies and emigrants from Fort Smith to Fort Towson.

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Kiamichi Baptist Assembly

Le Flore County
Location: three miles north of Talihina
Topics: Industrial Period, 1941–1982; Recreational/Service; Religion/Philosophy

Commemorates the founding of a campground and the Latimer Baptist Association in July 1941.

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New Hope Academy

Le Flore County
Material: Granite
Topics: Education

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Reverend John Page

Le Flore County
Location: on OK-112 south of Pocola
Material: Granite
Topics: American Indians; Government; Recreational/Service; Religion/Philosophy; Transportation

A well-known missionary/circuit minister for the Southern Methodist Church, Page sometimes served as an interpreter in the Choctaw Nation. He was a Choctaw representative to the meeting that resulted in the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866. He was treasurer of the Choctaw Council and a judge on the supreme court of the Choctaw Nation.

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Reverend Willis F. Folsom

Le Flore County
Location: on OK-112 south of Pocola
Material: Granite
Topics: American Indians; Religion/Philosophy; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Reverend Folsom, a Choctaw, was born in Mississippi and removed with his family to Indian Territory in the 1830s. After being educated, he served as an interpreter for white missionaries among the Choctaws and was ordained a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was a great frontier preacher whose influence was widespread among both whites and Choctaws.

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Reynolds Castle

Le Flore County
Location: at intersection of OK-112 and old OK-112
Topics: Family/Household; Government; Military; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

J.E. Reynolds was a Confederate veteran and pioneer rancher and merchant. His "castle" was built of stone, complete with turrets and two-foot thick walls. Reynolds was a delegate to the Sequoyah Convention, an attempt to create a separate Indian state of the Union.

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