Cherokee Square Monuments
category : Monuments
Several monuments of interest have been erected on Cherokee Square surrounding the Capitol Building.
* Monument to General Stand Watie the only full-blood Indian Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.
* Monument to John Ross: Principal Chief of the Cherokee, 1828 - 1866
* Miniature Statue of Liberty Erected in 1950 by the Boy Scouts of America during their 40th Anniversary Crusade to Strengthen the Arm of Liberty.
* Veterans Monument: Installed by the Disabled American Veterans and dedicated to all war veterans.
* Memorial to the Confederate Dead: Erected in 1913 by the Colonial William Penn Adair Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
* The Cherokee Advocate: First legal newspaper in Oklahoma, established September 26, 1884.
* First Telephone in Oklahoma and the first telephone in the Mississippi Valley west of St. Louis, 1885.
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