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 Silver City Trading Post - Tuttle, OK Posted by:  hamquilter
N 35° 17.463 W 097° 48.717
14S E 608028 N 3905967
Placed in 1931, this monument was described in the "WPA Guide to 1930s Oklahoma"
Waymark Code: WM14EBR
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2021
Views: 5
"Left from Minco on asphalt-paved and graveled State 37 is TUTTLE 8.6 mi. (1,296 alt., 940 pop.), where, at the eastern edge of town, stands the huge twelve-ton boulder marking the course of the Chisholm Trail and the site of Silver City Trading Post. A bronze tablet states that the community's first school and burying ground were two miles north. "Dedicated to ranchmen, cowboys, early settlers, and their descendants," the tablet bears the names of 112 pioneers; it was placed there by the Daughters of the American Revolution."
This monument still stands today in front of the American Legion at Main Street (Highway 37) and Cimarron Road. On the west side of the boulder is a bronze plaque which reads:
(Engraving of covered wagon and two oxen)
1870 / 1931
This boulder marks
THE CHISHOLM TRAIL
Site of Silver City Trading Post,
first school, and pioneer burying
ground, two miles north.
Dedicated to
ranchmen, cowboys, early settlers,
and their descendants.Sponsored by Chickasha Chapt. National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
The east side of the boulder has another bronze plaque:
Names of
Silver City Pioneers
First settlement in the
Chickasaw Country
1873 - 1891
(88 names of pioneers)
(Names of the Executive Committee of Pioneers and the D.A.R. Committee)
Book: Oklahoma
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 373
Year Originally Published: 1941
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