Nuyaka Mission

The school's name came by request. Augusta Robertson asked that it take a word from the Muscogee language rather than her father's name, so it was called for the nearby town of Nuyaka, which one account says is the Muscogee way of saying New York, where Creek leaders once met George Washington. It opened in four buildings with about seventy boys and girls, seven women teachers and one man to watch the boys, and the Rev. Thomas Ward Perryman, a Creek educated at Tullahassee, as first pastor. The superintendent's house is the only building left.

What the plaque says

Nuyaka Mission Founded by Presbyterian Bd. and Creek Nation 1882; through work of Alice Robertson, later first woman elected to Congress from state; Augusta Robertson Moore, 1st supt. of mission school. Nuyaka Town nearby was the seat of the "Loyal Creek" faction in the "Green Peach War" led by Isparhecker, later chief of Creek Nation.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muscogee (Creek) Nation Council House — 10.0 mi
  The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's 1878 stone capitol on the Okmulgee square, where the House of Kings and House of Warriors met, lost at statehood and bought back by the Nation in 2010.
• Boley Historic District — 21 mi
  The downtown of the largest of Oklahoma's All-Black towns, praised by Booker T. Washington, squeezed by Jim Crow and white land oaths, bankrupt in 1939 and still living today.

More markers nearby

• Samuel Checote — 10.0 mi
• Clearview — 16 mi
• Boley — 21 mi
• Boley, Oklahoma — 21 mi