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.