Cherokee County

Cherokee County

Cherokee County was created from the Cherokee Nation's Tahlequah District at the 1906 Constitutional Convention and named for the Cherokee Nation.

Cherokee

Cherokee County

Elias Boudinot

Kulakenna "Buck" Watie, brother of Stand Watie, took the name of his benefactor, Elias Boudinot of New Jersey. After completing his education, Boud...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

Manard

Site of Manard settlement on bayou menard. Named for Pierre Menard (1766-1844). Menard, an early day fur trader, merchant and member of the Choutea...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

Park Hill Press

Established July 1837, Rev. S.A. Worcester, Sput. Over 25 million pages were printed in Indian languages and in English by 1861. Printers and trans...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

Riley's Chapel

In 1843, Reverend Thomas Bertholf built Riley's Chapel on a hill south of the Cherokee capital. The first annual Indian Mission Conference of the M...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

Tahlequah

Tahlequah was the capital of the Cherokee Nation until statehood and the closing of the Cherokee government. Oklahoma's first newspaper, the Cherok...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

The Cherokee Advocate

As a tribute to Oklahoma's first legal newspaper, The Cherokee Advocate, was established in 1844 in a building approximately 100' from the ...

Cherokee

Cherokee County

The Grave of Mister Ed

Mister Ed. This monument was dedicated to the loving memory of Mr. Ed on Sunday, August 26, 1990. It is the result of a people of northeastern O...

  1. County information from Wikipedia.
  2. Population from U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.