Cherokee National Capitol
The Cherokee National Capitol, now the Cherokee National History Museum, is a historic tribal government building in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Completed in 1869, it served as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state.Photo: CPacker, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Protected area
- Description: Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- Also known as: “Cherokee Nation Courthouse”
- Address: 101 South Muskogee Avenue, Tahlequah, OK 74464
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cherokee National History Museum and Tahlequah Post Office.
Cherokee National History Museum
Museum
The Cherokee National History Museum is an art and cultural history museum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States. Established in 2019, it is housed in the historic Cherokee Nation Supreme Court building, formerly known as the Cherokee National Capitol building.
Tahlequah Post Office
Post office
Photo: Rhys Wynne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tahlequah Post Office is situated 4,100 feet south of Cherokee National Capitol.
Tahlequah Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Tahlequah Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Tahlequah, a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. Tahlequah Municipal Airport is situated 2 miles northwest of Cherokee National Capitol.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tahlequah.
Tahlequah
Photo: CPacker, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Tahlequah is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.
Cherokee National Capitol
- Categories: building and public building
- Location: Cherokee, Oklahoma, Great Plains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.91259° or 35° 54′ 45″ northLongitude
-94.97054° or 94° 58′ 14″ westOpen location code
8677W27H+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 543997512OpenStreetMap feature
building=civicWikidata ID
Q5092183
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