Historic Markers Tour

ALIKCHI COURT GROUND – Commemorates Choctaw District Court site where justice dispensed in 19th century. (Marker on Highway 3 about twenty miles east of Broken Bow)

CLEAR CREEK WATER MILL – Marking water-powered grist mill, which operated as early as 1819. (Marker located on the eastern edge of Valliant)

EAGLETOWN – tells story of this first permanent Choctaw settlement on Trail of Tears. (Marker co-located with Gardner Mansion Marker)

GARDNER MANSION – tells story of this home of Choctaw Chief Jefferson Gardner, which was built in 1884. (Marker on US Highway 70 east of Broken Bow)

GARLAND CEMETERY – commemorates Choctaw Chief Samuel Garland, who is buried there near his old home and plantation. (Marker located three miles east of Tom off US Highway 3)

HARRIS HOUSE – Presents story of county’s oldest home built by Choctaw diplomat-jurist, 1867, Northeast of Harris. (Marker on US Highway 259 south of Idabel)

HARRIS MILL CEMETERY – marks cemetery which is the only remaining evidence of the plantation and extensive enterprises of Harris brothers pre-Civil War period. (Marker east of Broken Bow on US Highway 70 near Arkansas line)

MILITARY ROAD – Tells of road cut in 1825 from Arkansas to Fort Towson, which became the Choctaw Trail of Tears. (Marker located on US Highway 70 in Broken Bow)

MILLER COURTHOUSE – commemorates old Miller County, Arkansas territory, 1820-1828 which included what is now McCurtain County located on the Red River southwest of Idabel. (Marker located on bypass in South Idabel)

PECAN POINT – Commemorates first Protestant Church services in Oklahoma, among white settlers in 1816. (Marker located with Miller Courthouse Marker)

SHAWNEETOWN – Tells story of early settlement of Shawnee Indians southwest of present Idabel: land later became part of large plantation operated by Choctaw, Robert M. Jones. (Marker co-located with Miller Courthouse Marker)

SMITHVILLE – Tells story of this early Choctaw settlement which became the town of Smithville. (Marker on US Highway 259)

WHEELOCK MISSION – Marks a mission station, church, and school established in 1832 by the Reverend Alfred Wright. (Marker located one mile east of Millerton)