Darlington

John H. Seger, the school superintendent the stone names, came to Darlington in 1872 as mason and carpenter for the new agency school, a Union veteran of Sherman's march. He ran the school from 1875 to 1882. In 1886, as allotment loomed, he went west with about 120 Arapaho people to farm on Cobb Creek; Cheyenne families joined them, and by 1887 the settlement numbered more than five hundred. Its people made the brick and cut the stone for the 1892 school buildings, the first brick buildings in Washita County. The town grown from it is Colony.

What the plaque says

Darlington Cheyenne-Arapaho agency establish- ed there 1870, by Brinton Darlington, Quaker, Indian agent appointed by President Grant. Important stop on Chisholm Trail. Site of Arapaho School, John H. Seger, Supt. Post office established in 1873, and first newspaper, "Cheyenne Transporter" in western Indian Territory publish- ed there, 1879. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Historic Fort Reno — 4.5 mi
  The Army post beside the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency at Darlington, from which troops chased the Northern Cheyenne north in 1878, later a remount station and a prisoner-of-war camp.
• The Chisholm — 18 mi
  Kingfisher's farming and ranching museum on the Chisholm Trail's stage branch, with a heritage village and Horizon Hill, the mansion a territorial governor built for a capital that never came.
• Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum — 26 mi
  The outdoor memorial and museum on the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people were killed at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, shaped by the families and survivors.

More markers nearby

• Run of '89 West Boundary — 3.8 mi
• Fort Reno — 5.1 mi
• Chisholm Trail — 13 mi
• Run of '89 West Boundary — 19 mi