Muskogee-area Centennial timeline
February, 1828
780 Creek Indians arrive at the Creek Agency on the Verdigris River on the steamboat, Facility, the first to travel up the Verdigris.
October, 1829
Sam Houston stops at the home of John Jolly on the mouth of the Illinois River as he travels up the Arkansas on the steamboat Facility. He settles at Three Forks and builds Wigwam Neosho.
1830
Congress passes the Indian Removal Act estblishing the policy to remove the Five Tribes to Indian Territory
1832
Washington Irving visits Indian Territory and writes about it in “A Tour on the Prairies.” He visits Sam Houston at Three Forks.
1833
Nathan Boone surveys the boundary line between the Cherokee and Creek Nations.
Sept. 26, 1840
Pleasant Porter is born on the family plantation in the Choska bottom.
1849
Tullahassee Mission is begun for Creek Indians by Presbyterian missionaries.
Jan. 2, 1856
Alice Robertson is born at Tullahassee Mission.
1861
Confederate troops build Fort Davis on site of ancient burial mounds.
November, 1862
Col. W.A. Phillips returns federal troops to Indian Territory and occupies Fort Gibson.
December, 1862
Fort Davis is attacked and burned by federal troops.
1866
The Five Tribes sign new treaties with the U.S., giving up lands and grant railroad right of ways.
1871
Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad bridge is completed over the Arkansas River. A General Grant engine crosses on Christmas Day.
1872
The M-K-T rail line is completed to its depot south of the Three Forks. The town of Muscogee develops around this depot.
1873
First International Indian Fair is held in Muscogee, Indian Territory