Randles Memorial Park

Historical marker location:

Hardesty, Oklahoma

( Marker is on U.S. 412 west of 6th Street, on the left when traveling west.)

1958.

The Cherokee Nation is headquartered in Oklahoma and is one of the largest Native American tribes in the country. The tribe has a long and complex history in Oklahoma, including the forced removal of thousands of Cherokees from their ancestral lands in the 1830s, which became known as the Trail of Tears.