SITE DIRECTORY
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Thomas Smith Cemetery
THOMAS SMITH CEMETERY
FOUNDED: 1902
ADDITONAL NAMES: N/A
AFFILIATION(S):
Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band
HISTORY:
The Thomas Smith Cemetery is a Creek Freedmen cemetery that originated in 1902 when its namesake, Thomas Smith, donated the land as a cemetery. It is in the northwest section of Wagoner County, approximately one and a half miles east of the Tulsa County line, and approximately 1.33 miles from two Creek Turnpike entrances to the east. The cemetery lies north of the City of Broken Arrow city limits and roughly seven miles from downtown Broken Arrow. The Thomas Smith Cemetery’s historic period of significance is from circa 1902 to1974. As an active cemetery, this period reflects its origination as a cemetery for the surrounding community to the fifty-year threshold for the National Register of Historic Places as an active Muscogee (Creek) Freedmen Cemetery.
BCN Contact Information:
Rhonda Grayson
Old Agency Cemetery
OLD AGENCY CEMETERY
FOUNDED: 1858
ADDITONAL NAMES: Union Agency
AFFILIATION(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.
BCN Contact Information:
Rhonda Grayson
mcifb@1866creekfreedmen.com