Fort Davis

Historical marker location:

Muskogee, Oklahoma

( Marker is on York Street (State Highway 16), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

Brigadier General Albert Pike established this frontier post in November of 1861 to house Confederate forces. It was named for Confederate President Jefferson Davis who had served in present-day Oklahoma in his army career. Union forces completely destroyed the heavily fortified post two days after Christmas in 1862.