Claremore Mound

Historical marker location:

Claremore, Oklahoma

( Marker is on State Highway 88, 0 miles north of East Canyon Oaks Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

Named for the great Osage chief, Clermont, the area was the site of an Osage village destroyed by the Cherokees in 1817. Oil was discovered a century later on the Osage Reservation nearby.