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Bacone College

Muskogee County
Location: at front entrance of Bacone College in Muskogee
Sponsor(s): Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: American Indians; Education; Religion/Philosophy; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Almon C. Bacone founded Bacone College for American Indians in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, in 1880. The school was moved to Muskogee in the Creek Nation in 1885. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Church and is the oldest college continually in operation in Oklahoma.


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