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This is the old English Block, which is now a parking lot downtown next to the B.E.S.T. Center.


The old Equity building in downtown Muskogee. Note the cars and trucks around the building.


Muskogee businessman A.C. Trumbo built Convention Hall in Muskogee to host the Trans-Mississippi Congress in 1907.


Sometime after this photo was taken, someone decided to pencil in the 'N' at the top of this store's sign.


Meat hangs in the Central Packing Company, south of the railroad tracks on South 24th Street and operated by Joe Lux.


This spectacular view shows downtown Muskogee from atop one of its tall buildings in the late 1930s or early 1940s.


Published May 24, 2007 11:27 am -

Muskogee-area Centennial timeline



1000 A.D.
Mound Builders build ceremonial mounds at present day Okay, Wagoner and Muskogee.

Circa 1780
Osage chief Big Tracks (Cashesegra) moves part of the tribe to the Three Forks area; establishes settlement here.

1803
The United States purchases Louisiana from France for $15 million. Purchase included Muskogee area.

1806
James Wilkerson, as part of Zebulon Pike's exploration party, travels down the Arkansas; visits Osage village at Three Forks.

December, 1806
Joseph Bogey secures a trade license with Osages sets up first trading post at the Three Forks.

1808
George Brand and Capt. Barbour of New Orleans clear land along the Verdigris for their trading post near present day Okay. They also establish a ferry.

July 14, 1816
William Lovely, Cherokee agent, negotiates a peace treaty with the Osage for 7 million acres from the Falls of the Verdigris to White River in Arkansas. Called Lovely's Purchase and Lovely County.

March 2, 1819
Arkansas Territory is established by Congress and includes most of present day Oklahoma.

1819
Brand and Barbour sell their trading post on the east bank of the Verdigris at Three Forks to A.P. Chouteau.

Feb. 18, 1821
Missionary families arrive at Three Forks from New York to establish Union Mission near Mazie, the first mission in Indian Country.

1822
Emigrants bound for Texas begin to use the Texas Road to cross Indian Territory to claim free land being offered in Texas.

April 21, 1824
Construction on Fort Gibson begins by Col. Matthew Arbuckle and his Seventh Infantry.

April 4, 1824
A.P. Chouteau leaves from his Verdigris trading post with 19 tons of furs and hides.

June 2, 1825
Osages make a peace treaty with the government. The treaty moves the AR boundary to its present day line.

1827
A.P. Chouteau sells his Verdigris trading post to the U.S. government to be used as a Creek Agency. Steamboat companies in river towns advertise this as a destination site.



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