Sheridan

The general in the town's name had laid out the posts that watched over this country. Camp Supply was founded in the Cherokee Outlet on November 18, 1868, as the supply base for Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's winter campaign against the southern Plains tribes. The next year Sheridan, commanding the Military Department of the Missouri, named the new post on Medicine Creek Fort Sill, for Brig. Gen. Joshua W. Sill, his West Point classmate killed at Stones River, Tennessee, in 1862. Troops from both posts later policed the land openings that created towns like this one.

What the plaque says

Sheridan At the opening of the "Unassigned Lands" to homesteaders in 1889, a quarter section in Skeleton Town- ship was reserved for a townsite. Named Sheridan in honor of Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, the town grew until 1902, when nearby Marshall became the rail center of the area. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1974

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• The Chisholm — 22 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.
• Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library — 23 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.
• Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Lovell — 5.8 mi
• First Town Site of Marshall — 5.9 mi
• Massacre of Pat Hennessey — 10 mi
• Roy V. Cashion — 10 mi