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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.


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



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