Riverside School - Anadarko, OK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member gparkes
N 35° 05.767 W 098° 14.654
14S E 568884 N 3883963
This marker can be found north of Anadarko, on the east side of State Highway 281. Located directly across from the modern Riverside Indian School.
Waymark Code: WM7X1Q
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/15/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Marker text states:

Riverside School

Begun by U.S. Quaker Agents 1871 This school opened at the Indian agency on Sugar Creek with 8 pupils. A new building was erected as a boarding school in 1872 for Wichita and Caddo children. Fire in 1878 destoryed the school. It soon reopened in a new building here on the Washita and continues as the oldest boarding school in the United States Indian Service.

Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Highway Commission 1974

County: Caddo County

Record Address::
Highway 281
Anadarko, OK USA
73005

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Date Erected: 1974

Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Highway Commission

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