Reynolds Castle

The convention Reynolds sat in opened on August 21, 1905, in the Hinton Theater at Muskogee. Cherokee Principal Chief W. C. Rogers and Choctaw Chief Green McCurtain called it at the urging of Cherokee citizen James A. Norman, whose 1904 pamphlet proposed naming the state for Sequoyah. Muscogee (Creek) Chief Pleasant Porter presided and the poet Alexander Posey was secretary. Its constitution ran to some thirty-five thousand words. Voters approved it on November 7, 1905, by 56,279 to 9,073, but Congress refused to consider the statehood bills.

What the plaque says

Reynolds Castle On the hill to the east was home of Capt. J.E. Reynolds, a Confederate veteran, a pioneer rancher and merchant. Built of native stone, like a castle complete with turrets, and walls two feet thick. Reynolds was a delegate to the Sequoyah Convention which attempted to bring I.T. into the Union as a separate state. Oklahoma Historical Society 194-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center — 11 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center on the Arkansas River, about 850 to 1450, whose burial mound was mined in the 1930s, now run in consultation with the Caddo Nation and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Backbone Mountain — 3.6 mi
• Fort Coffee — 7.5 mi
• Choctaw Agency — 7.5 mi
• Skullyville — 7.9 mi