Lacey

John F. Lacey's lasting work was in conservation. The Iowa Republican wrote the Lacey Act, signed by President McKinley on May 25, 1900, which made it a federal crime to ship illegally taken game across state lines and remains a foundation of wildlife law enforcement. With the anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett he wrote the Antiquities Act, central to saving archaeological sites in the Southwest, and in 1894 he sponsored the law protecting Yellowstone's wildlife from poachers. He chaired the House Public Lands Committee from 1895 to 1907; in 1889 he was a first-term congressman.

What the plaque says

Lacey Serving as a post office from 1890 to 1909. The town was named for John F. Lacey from Iowa who served as a member of the Congressional Committee on Indian Affairs and chairman of the Committee on Public Lands which opened Oklahoma Territory to homesteaders in 1889. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Chisholm — 20 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.
• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center — 22 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.
• Roman Nose State Park — 23 mi
  A canyon of gypsum cliffs and three springs north of Watonga, one of Oklahoma's first seven state parks, named for Henry Roman Nose, a Cheyenne chief who survived Fort Marion.
• Sod House Museum — 31 mi
  Marshal McCully's two-room soddy of 1894 near Aline, the one sod house left in Oklahoma that a homesteader built, under a protective cover where it has always stood.

More markers nearby

• Bull Foot Station — 10 mi
• First Rural Mail Route — 10 mi
• Roy V. Cashion — 10 mi
• Massacre of Pat Hennessey — 10 mi