Historical Marker Program

Alluwe

Nowata County
Location: Five miles south of OK-28/US-60 junction on OK-28
Coordinates: 36.621564, -95.485845
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Roberta Campbell Lawson and Herbert Lockhart Campbell
Topics: American Indians; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

John Edward Campbell of Winchester, Virginia, and his wife, Emma Journeycake Campbell, established a home and store at Alluwe, Indian Territory, in January 1878. Then known as Lightning Creek, the town was established by the Delawares after settling on land purchased from the Cherokee Nation in 1867. Campbell and other residents successfully petitioned Congress to change the town’s post office designation from Lightning Creek to Alluwe in 1883.

Charles Journeycake

Nowata County
Location: five miles south of OK-28/US-60 junction on OK-28
Coordinates: 36.626737, -95.485858
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Roberta Campbell Lawson and Herbert Lockhart Campbell
Topics: American Indians; Government; Religion/Philosophy; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

This marker commemorates the site of the residence of Reverend Charles Journeycake and his wife, Jane Sosha Journeycake. Rev. Journeycake was a Baptist minister and chief of the Delaware Indians. In 1866, he supported a treaty removing the Delawares from Kansas to Indian Territory. Under his leadership, the Delawares settled in Indian Territory on land purchased from the Cherokee Nation. Delaware Baptist Church was located near his home. He died on January 3, 1894.