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An active participant in the Oklahoma Main Street Program, Tahlequah boasted nine structures on the National Register of Historic Places at the beginning of the twenty-first century, including the Cherokee National Capitol (NR 66000627), which is also listed as a National Historic Landmark and on the Historic American Buildings Survey.
David Campbell, Railroads Through Cherokee County: Frisco Ozark Route and the St. Louis and Oklahoma Southern (Tahlequah, Okla.: Indian Territory Genealogical and Historical Society, 1998). Cherokee County Economic Base Report (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, 1971).
Northeastern Normal opened as a teacher training school in Tahlequah in September 1909. Housed in a former Cherokee Female Seminary building, the institution admitted anyone who had completed the eighth grade.
Hunter’s Home is the only remaining pre–Civil War plantation home in Oklahoma. A kitchen garden, field crops, animals, log cabin, and the historic home give visitors a window into life on an antebellum Cherokee plantation.
You will need to trace your way back to a direct ancestor who was living in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) during the enrollment period, 1898–1914. If the individual was a married woman, you should look for her under her married name.
Located in the western part of Cherokee County, Hulbert lies between Wagoner and Tahlequah on Highway 51. It is fifty-five miles southeast of the metropolitan area of Tulsa. Hulbert Store and Grist Mill was built in 1890.
Since 1934 the Oklahoma Historical Society American Indian Archives have housed records for numerous tribal nations. The records came to the Oklahoma Historical Society after Congress passed legislation giving the OHS custody of the materials.
Photograph of a group of young women students posing in uniforms outside a building at the Cherokee Sequoyah Orphans Training School near Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1920 or 1921.
Article chronicles the life of Eliza Missouri Bushyhead, a prominent teacher at the Cherokee Female Seminary at Tahlequah. The article compares her life to her father's, Jesse Bushyhead, who was a missionary based in the Cherokee Nation.
CHEROKEE MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARIES. The Cherokee Male and Female Seminaries were boarding schools opened by the tribal government in 1851. The male school stood southwest of Tahlequah, and its female counterpart north of Park Hill.