Historical Marker Program

Fort Arbuckle

Garvin County
Location: about seven miles west of Davis on OK-7
Coordinates: 34.521511, -97.247631
Material: Other (Stone with bronze plaque)
Sponsor(s): Ardmore Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Topics: Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Established by Captain Randolph Marcy of the US Fifth Infantry in April 1851. Major William H. Emory of the US Fifth Cavalry arrived as commanding officer in 1859. The post was abandoned to Confederate forces in May 1861. Reoccupied after the Civil War and supported General Philip H. Sheridan’s campaign against Plains Indian tribes during the winter of 1868. The fort was abandoned in 1870. The Initial Point of the Indian Meridian is located one mile south of this marker’s location.

Fort Arbuckle

Garvin County
Location: on OK-7 in Hoover (about seven miles west of Davis)
Coordinates: 34.521425, -97.247501 (approximate)
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Captain Randolph Marcy established Fort Arbuckle in April 1851. From this major army post, Marcy and George B. McClellan, later the commander in chief of the Army of the Potomac, set out to explore the source of the Red River in 1852. The post was abandoned to Confederate forces in May 1861. After being garrisoned by US troops after the Civil War, Fort Arbuckle was abandoned in 1870. The Initial Point for land surveys is one mile south at the intersection of Indian Meridian and Baseline.

Fort Arbuckle

Tulsa County
Location: in Brush Creek Park near Sand Springs
Sponsor(s): Tulsa County Historical Society
Topics: American Indians; Military; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

The site of Fort Arbuckle is less than one mile north. One of the two US military posts on the western frontier of the Creek Nation, this “first” Fort Arbuckle in Indian Territory was built in 1834 by troops of the 7th Infantry with Major George Birch in command. The stockade buildings were garrisoned only a few months.