Historical Marker
Osage Village
Historical marker location:
Allen, Oklahoma
( Marker is on State Highway 1, 0.3 miles north of Blackrock Road (County Road E149.5), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1981
This early Osage encampment contained more than 300 inhabitants. Chief Black Dog, seven feet tall and blind in one eye, was the leader of the Osage who welcomed General Henry Leavenworth and his First Dragoons on a peace expedition to the area in 1834.