Tullahassee Mission

Historical marker location:

6290 U.S. Highway 69, Porter, Oklahoma

( Marker is on U.S. 69, 0.4 miles north of 820th Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

Tullahassee was established as a Creek mission by Presbyterian Reverend R. M. Loughridge in 1848. Alice Robertson, later Oklahoma's first congresswoman and the first woman postmaster in America, was born here.

The name "Oklahoma" comes from the Choctaw words "okla" and "humma", which together mean "red people." The Choctaw Nation had a significant presence in the area that is now Oklahoma before it became a state.