Historical Marker Program

Sasakwa

Seminole County
Location: on OK-56, two miles west of Sasakwa
Coordinates: 34.949236, -96.565361
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: American Indians; Government; Religion/Philosophy; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Home of Governor John F. Brown, who was principal Chief of the Seminole Nation for 34 years, succeeding his father-in-law Chief John Jumper. Jumper served as a colonel in the Seminole Mounted Volunteers for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Brown served as a lieutenant under Chief Jumper. Each in turn was pastor of Spring Baptist Church, which was founded near this marker’s location in 1850 by Baptists.