Iowa Chapel Cemetery

Lincoln County was organized from reservation land opened to a run on September 22, 1891, and some of that land had been home to the Iowa. They call themselves Baxoje, grey snow, for winter lodges stained grey by hearth smoke. The full-blood faction began moving to Indian Territory in 1878 and was given land within the Sac and Fox reservation in 1883. Before the run each tribal member was allotted 80 acres, and the rest of the reservation, 221,528 acres, was sold at under 28 cents an acre. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is based at Perkins.

What the plaque says

Iowa Chapel Cemetery Established on 1 acre of land c. 1891. Another acre purchased 1914 from John Sauers. A log church stood across road to the north. When College Corner School built 1 1/2 m. south log church sold and removed. Cem- etery Assn. annual mtg., Memorial Day. Dedicated to pioneers who left the trail better than they found it. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 17 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.

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