Thomas Smith Cemetery
Site Brief:
Founded: 1902
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
Additional name(s): N/A
Affiliate group(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.
