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Kiamichi Country
Broken Bow
Beavers Bend Wildlife Museum
Route 4, Box 25, Broken Bow, Ok 74728
Phone: 580-494-6193, Fax: 580-494-66428, E-Mail: nature@pine-net.com
Gardner Mansion & Museum
Route 1 Box 576, Broken Bow 74728
6 mi E on US-70 405/584-6588
Sum, M-F 8a-6p, Su 2-6p; Win, M-F 10a-5p, Su 2-5p GBA, M $2a,
$1c
On the grounds of this Choctaw chief's 1880 home is a
2,000-year old Cypress tree killed by lightning in 1982.
Fort Towson
Fort Towson Military Park
HC 63, Box 1580, Fort Towson 74735-9273
1 mi NE of city 405/873-2634
M-Sa 9a-5p, Su 1-5p Closed state holidays GBA, M FREE(D)
Ruins of 1824-1854 Army post with artifacts on display. Site
of Civil War General Stand Watie's surrender in 1865.
Haworth
Henry Harris Home
HC 60, Box 2070, Haworth 74740
5 1/2 mi SW on SH-3 405/245-1129
By appt GBA, M FREE(D)
1867 residence of Choctaw leader; original furnishings.
Displays detail the Trail of Tears period of Indian removal to
Oklahoma.
Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home
PO Box 70, Hugo 74743
SW of city on SH-271A 405/326-7568
M-Sa 8a-5p Closed 1st 2 weeks of both Jul and Dec GBA, H,M
FREE(D)
1848 buildings still in use as orphanage and boarding school
for American Indian children.
Showmen's Rest/Mt Olivet Cemetery
c/o Chamber of Commerce, 200 S Broadway, Hugo 74743
Trice & 8th St 405/326-7511
Daily 8a-5p GBA, H,M FREE
Unusual monuments of circus performers; burial place of
champion bull riders Freckles Brown and Lane Frost.
Idabel
Museum of the Red River
812 E Lincoln Rd, Idabel 74745 405/286-3616
Tu-Sa 10a-5p Closed major holidays GBA, H,M FREE(D)
Explores diversity of American Indian cultures of North and
South America, from ancient times to the present.
Indianola
Choate House Museum
PO Box 239, Indianola 74442
W Walnut 918/823-4421
By appt GBA, H,M FREE
1867 log home of Choctaw Senate president is furnished with
18th- and 19th-century items. Barn and outbuildings.
McAlester
Coal Miners Memorial Plaza
PO Box 759, McAlester 74501
400 S 3rd, Chadick Park
Daily GBA, H,M FREE
Documents the impact of the coal mining industry in early
Pittsburg County. Coal miners Wall of Memories; Carl Albert
statue.
McAlester Building Foundation
PO Box 1846, McAlester 74502
200 E Adams 918/423-2932
M-F 8a-2p, Sa-Su by appt Closed major holidays GBA, H,M
FREE(D)
Themed rooms and hands-on displays in old high school contain
Indian history, coal mining, military hall of fame.
Pittsburg County Historical Museum
113 E Carl Albert Pkwy, McAlester 74501 405/423-2550
M-F 9a-3p Closed legal holidays GBA FREE(D)
Research and genealogical library, Dawes Indian Rolls; mining,
Indian artifacts.
Swink
Choctaw Chief's House
PO Box 165, Swink 74761
US-70 between Ft Towson and Valliant 405/873-2301
By appt GBA, H,M FREE(D)
Renovated 1837 home of Choctaw Chief, built by the U.S.
government as prescribed by the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit
Creek.
Tuskahoma
Choctaw Nation Museum
HC 64 Box 3270, Tuskahoma 74574-9758
US-271 N 918/569-4465
Sum, Tu-Sa 8a-4p; Win, M-F 8a-4p Closed holidays GBA, H,M
FREE(D)
1884 capitol of the Choctaw tribe houses vintage clothing,
tribal documents and Choctaw pottery. Gift shop.
Wilburton
Robbers Cave Nature Center
PO Box 9, Wilburton 74578
SH-2, Robbers Cave State Park 918/465-5154
Su-F 10a-5p, Sa 10a-7p Closed Thanksgiving & Christmas GBA,
H,M FREE
Refurbished CCC bathhouse with exhibits about Native American
history, natural history and the environment. Gift shop.
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