Park Hill Press

Historical marker location:

Park Hill, Oklahoma

( Marker is on South Muskogee Avenue (U.S. 62) 0.1 miles north of Crestwood Drive, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

In 1837, Reverend Samuel Worcester moved his printing plant from Union Mission to Park Hill. Over the next quarter-century, more than 25 million pages were printed in English and American Indian languages.

The first permanent European settlement in Oklahoma was established by French fur traders in 1719 near present-day Spiro.