Webbers Falls

Historical marker location:

Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

( Marker is on OK Route 100 (U.S. 64) 0.2 miles east of 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1995

Western Cherokee Chief Walter Webber established a trading post here in 1829. The falls on the Arkansas were reportedly six feet high in 1806, sufficient to block travel for river steamers. The village of Webbers Falls was burned by federal troops in the Civil War in April 1863.

The state capital of Oklahoma is Oklahoma City, which was settled in 1889 during the Land Run of 1889, when settlers rushed to stake their claim on land that had previously been reserved for Native American tribes.