Elliott Academy
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Lat34North
N 34° 00.380 W 095° 07.165
15S E 304274 N 3764883
Elliott Academy historical marker is located on the south side of US 70, just east of N450, near Valliant, OK.
Waymark Code: WM7FYM
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2009
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Elliott Academy

Established here in 1869 as Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Presbyterian Board of Missions as boarding school for children of Choctaw Freedmen. Academy succeeded small school begun in 1860 by ex-slave and Presbyterian Minister Charles W. Stewart to serve numerous black families who had settled here after Civil War. Name changed in 1912 after David Elliott gave funds for new dormitory in memory of his wife, Alice Lee. Students cleared and operated large farm to help support school. Hundreds of students trained at academy before closer in 1936.

Oklahoma Historical Society
198-1995
County: McCurtain

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Date Erected: 1995

Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society

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