Union Mission - Maize, OK
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The Snowdog
N 36° 07.459 W 095° 17.252
15S E 294137 N 4000160
Union Mission, established in 1920, was established as a ministry to the Osage Indians - near Chouteau, Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WM13C0D
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/04/2020
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Union Mission was established in 1920 as a ministry to the Osage Indians. According to the web page linked below the Mission was the site of the first recorded marriage, first school, first printing press, first book published, first Christian burial, first commercialized salt works, first white settlement, first white and Indian cemetery, and home to Oklahoma's oldest grave marker (the page says 1825; there are graves from 1822 here). The text of the historical marker is:
On these premises
UNION MISSION
The first mission in Oklahoma was founded in 1820 by Rev. Epaphras Chapman
THE FIRST PRESS was established and the first book printed in 1835 by Rev. Samuel Austin Worchester
Erected by Oklahoma Library Association 1935
County: Mays County
Record Address::
Highway 69 between Chouteau & Maize
Maize, OK United States
74353
Web site if available: [Web Link]
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Date Erected: 1935
Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Library Association
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