Tullahassee Mission

The superintendent's wife did the mission's longest work. Ann Eliza Worcester, daughter of the missionary Samuel Austin Worcester, married William S. Robertson at Park Hill in 1850 and taught here, learning the Muscogee language from her students. She translated the entire New Testament and much of the Old, and with her husband produced hymnals and other texts; he and David Winslett, a Muscogee speaker, prepared a First Reader in 1856. Wooster College gave her an honorary doctorate in 1892, and when she died on November 19, 1905, she was revising her New Testament for its fifth edition.

What the plaque says

Tullahassee Mission This Creek Indian school was founded by Rev. R.M. Loughridge, Presbyterian Bd. Foreign Miss., 1848. Rev. W.S. Robertson was employed as the supt. Rebuilt by Creeks when destroyed by fire in 1880. Operated until 1907 for Freedmen. Oklahoma Daughters of American Colonists Oklahoma Historical Society 85-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Gibson Historic Site — 8.6 mi
  The army's first post in what became Oklahoma, built at Three Forks in 1824, where removed nations arrived; deeded to the Cherokee in 1857, it later housed the Dawes Commission.
• Honey Springs Battlefield — 22 mi
  The July 17, 1863 battlefield on the Texas Road, the largest fight in Indian Territory, where Cherokee and Muscogee regiments fought on both sides and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry held.
• Cherokee National History Museum — 25 mi
  The Cherokee Nation's own history museum, in the brick capitol it built on Tahlequah's square after the Civil War, a short walk from its 1844 supreme court and its 1875 prison.

More markers nearby

• Chief Pushmataha — steps away
• Wigwam Neosho — steps away
• Tullahassee — 2.0 mi
• Fort Davis — 4.9 mi