First Town Site of Marshall

Marshall's best-known daughter arrived in 1899, when nine-year-old Angie Debo came from Kansas with her parents by covered wagon. The town had no high school until 1910, so she earned her diploma in 1913 at 23, and went on to a history doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in 1933. Her And Still the Waters Run, finished in 1936, was dropped by the University of Oklahoma Press and published by Princeton in 1940. Her only novel, Prairie City, published in 1944, drew on Marshall's history, and the town has held Prairie City Days in her honor since 1968.

What the plaque says

First Town Site of Marshall Begun as crossroads store on claim of Sylvan T. Rice with first sale July 25, 1889. On March 1, 1890, became Marshall I. T. Post Office. Moved to new townsite 1894. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 19 mi
  Perry's museum of the Cherokee Outlet, in a town that was a land office on bare prairie the morning of September 16, 1893 and held some 25,000 people that night.
• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center — 21 mi
  The Oklahoma Historical Society's Enid museum of the September 1893 run into the Cherokee Outlet, with the town's original land office among the old buildings out back.
• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 22 mi
  The 1902 Carnegie Library in Guthrie where Oklahoma's statehood was proclaimed in 1907, saved from demolition in 1972 by adding a museum of the seventeen territorial years beside it.
• The Chisholm — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• Sheridan — 5.9 mi
• Lovell — 7.1 mi
• Mulhall — 14 mi
• Run of '89 North Boundary — 14 mi