Historical Marker Program

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Chief’s Old House

Choctaw County
Location: on county road, two miles northeast of Swink
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Swink Historical Preservation Association
Topics: American Indians; Family/Household; Settlement Patterns; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

According to some this is the oldest house still standing in Oklahoma, having been built in 1832 by the federal government for Choctaw District Chief Thomas LeFlore under its treaty obligations with the Choctaw Nation. Recent scholarship indicates that the home built for LeFlore stood west of Wheelock Mission in McCurtain County. However, this old house is representative of a typical Choctaw planter's home in the mid-nineteenth century.

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