The Seger Indian Training School was a historic school on the eastern edge of Colony, Oklahoma. John Homer Seger, a white settler in the Indian Territory, founded the school in 1893. Seger had come to the Darlington Agency in 1875 to work as a teacher, and he established the Seger Colony (the predecessor of Colony) in 1886 with 120 Arapaho. His school taught farming and industrial skills to Native Americans until it closed in 1941; one of the buildings later became Colony's public school.[2]
Seger Indian Training School | |
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location | E edge of Colony, Colony, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 35°20′41″N 98°40′11″W / 35.34472°N 98.66972°W |
| Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | 1893 |
| NRHP reference No. | 71001080[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 5, 1971 |
| Removed from NRHP | January 1, 1973 |
The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971; at the time, its buildings were stated to be in poor condition. It was destroyed by fire under mysterious circumstances on September 7, 1971.[3] It was removed from the Register in 1973.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Ruth, Kent (June 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seger Indian Trading School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ^ "Mystery Fire Destroys Historic Colony Schoolhouse". The Daily Oklahoman. September 8, 1971. p. 1. Retrieved August 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.