Old Agency Cemetery
Site Brief:
Founded: 1858
Location: Muskogee, OK
Additional name(s): Union Agency
Affiliate group(s):
Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band
History:
The cemetery contains the remains of African Creek people who were part of the force removal to Indian Territory in the 1830's and who were enslaved by the Muscogee Creek Nation Tribe. In 1866 these people were freed by the Treaty of 1866 and went on to be prominent citizens of the Muscogee Nation.
