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Battle of Locust Grove

Mayes County
Location: on grounds of Pipe Springs Park in Locust Grove
Coordinates: 36.198147, -95.149979
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Military; Territorial Period, 1865–1907

On July 2, 1862, federal troops under Colonel William Weer surprised a Confederate encampment here. The Southerners led by Colonel J. J. Clarkson surrendered, but heavy fighting continued throughout the day in nearby woods between Union troops and Confederate soldiers who escaped the raid.

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Cabin Creek Battlefield

Mayes County
Location: on US-69, four miles north of Adair
Coordinates: 36.495603, -95.255954
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Military; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

On September 18, 1864, a Confederate force of mainly 2,000 men, Gen. Stand Watie’s Indian Brigade, intercepted a Union supply train en route from Kansas to Fort Gibson. The convoy was captured after a heavy engagement. This was the last major Civil War engagement in Indian Territory. Earlier, in July 1863, Confederate forces were defeated in a small skirmish here.

Note: Cabin Creek Battlefield historic site is located approximately eight miles east of this marker’s location.

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Chouteau’s Post

Mayes County
Location: on public school grounds in Salina
Topics: American Indians; Indian and Frontier Trade; Military; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Auguste Chouteau and his brother, Pierre, traded with the Arkansas band of Osage in the Three Forks area where the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Grand Rivers merge. Colonel A. P. Chouteau—Pierre's son and the fourteenth man to graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point— built a trading post on the Grand River in 1817, recognized as the oldest permanent American settlement in what became Oklahoma. He built a home near the trading post on the eastern bank of the Grand River.

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Nathaniel Pryor

Mayes County
Location: on US-64, four miles south of Pryor
Topics: Indian and Frontier Trade; Military; Ranching; Social/Cultural

Born in Virginia about 1783, Nathaniel Pryor was related to family of Jefferson Davis and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803. He re-entered the army in 1813 as a 1st Lieutenant and discharged as Captain in 1815. Pryor entered into Indian trade at Three Forks on the Verdigris and soon became one of the most noted figures of early Oklahoma history. He was the first to bring fine Kentucky horses to Oklahoma.

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Salina

Mayes County
Location: at Salina High School
Topics: Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Education; Folklife; Social/Cultural

A large monument erected in 1916 to commemorate Oklahoma's first white settlement was used as a cornerstone during construction of Salina High School.

Union Mission

Mayes County
Location: on US-69, two miles of Chouteau
Material: Aluminum
Topics: American Indians; Education; Mass Communication; Religion/Philosophy; Social/Cultural; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

The mission was organized for the Osage in 1820 and the future state's first school opened for classes on September 1, 1821. On the grounds is what is believed to be the oldest marked grave in Oklahoma, that of Reverend Epaphras Chapman, a victim of typhus on June 7, 1825. The first printing press in present-day Oklahoma was located at Union Mission.

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Union Mission

Mayes County
Location: inside Union Mission Cemetery south of Chouteau south of Mazie Landing Road
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Education; Religion/Philosophy; Social/Cultural; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

This is the burial ground of members of missionary families who died at Union Mission from 1822 to 1825. The mission was a pioneer institution, the site of the state's first church and school.

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