Seger_Indian_Training_School

Seger Indian Training School

Seger Indian Training School

United States historic place

The Seger Indian Training School was a historic school on the eastern edge of Colony, Oklahoma. John Homer Seger, a white settler in the Indian Territory, founded the school in 1893. Seger had come to the Darlington Agency in 1875 to work as a teacher, and he established the Seger Colony (the predecessor of Colony) in 1886 with 120 Arapaho. His school taught farming and industrial skills to Native Americans until it closed in 1941; one of the buildings later became Colony's public school.[2]

Quick Facts Location, Coordinates ...

The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971; at the time, its buildings were stated to be in poor condition. It was destroyed by fire under mysterious circumstances on September 7, 1971.[3] It was removed from the Register in 1973.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Ruth, Kent (June 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seger Indian Trading School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Mystery Fire Destroys Historic Colony Schoolhouse". The Daily Oklahoman. September 8, 1971. p. 1. Retrieved August 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.


This article about a property in Oklahoma on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Seger_Indian_Training_School, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.