Battle of Chusto-Talasah - Sperry, OK
Posted by: The Snowdog
N 36° 17.768 W 095° 58.490
15S E 232855 N 4020902
A historical marker describing the Battle of Chusto-Talasah; in Mack Taylor Park, east of Sperry, Oklahoma
Waymark Code: WM11TCC
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/15/2019
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Mack Taylor Park is a small, triangular park bounded by 98th Street to the north, Peoria Avenue to the east, and the curve of Highway 11 to the west and south. The park hosts a historical marker, found near the pavilion, that describes a small battle during the Civil War.
SEAL OF OKLAHOMA
BATTLE OF
CHUSTO-TALASAH
This battle site is 9 miles N.E., S.E., at the Caving Banks bend on Bird Creek. Here Dec 9 1861 - Opothleyahola's Union Indians forced the retreat of Col. D. H. Cooper's Confederate troops.
Marker sponsored by the Tulsa
County Historical Society.
Oklahoma Historical Society
171-1995