Historical Marker
Samuel Checote
Historical marker location:
100 West 6th Street, Okmulgee, Oklahoma
( Marker is on West 6th Street (State Highway 56), on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1966
Samuel Checote was the first elected Creek chief after the Civil War and spent much of his life serving as a Methodist minister. Checote was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army.