First Cherokee Female Seminary Site

First Cherokee Female Seminary site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Park Hill, Oklahoma, United States
Coordinates	35.867465°, -94.955904
Built	1851
Architectural style	Classical Revival
Demolished	1887
NRHP reference No.	74001658[1][2]
Added to NRHP	1973

The first Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school opened by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in Park Hill, Oklahoma. On Easter Sunday 1887, a fire burned the building, but the head of the school, Florence Wilson, made sure all the girls got out. Two years later, in 1889, the new Cherokee Female Seminary reopened and still stands just north of Tahlequah.^[3]

Today the Cherokee Heritage Center stands on the grounds of the original Cherokee Female Seminary. The only Classical Revival architecture features to survive the 1887 fire, the school's columns still stand today and are surrounded by roses.

See also

• Cherokee Male Seminary

References

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. OK-50, "First Cherokee Female Seminary, Tsa-La-Gi, Cherokee Cultural Center, 1 mile south of Tahlequah, Park Hill vicinity, Cherokee County, OK"

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National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma

Park Hill

• First Cherokee Female Seminary Site
• Murrell Home
• Park Hill Mission Cemetery
• Ross Cemetery

Tahlequah

• Alston-Bedwell House
• American Baptist Home Mission House
• American Legion Hut
• Cherokee Female Seminary
• Cherokee National Capitol
• Cherokee National Jail
• Cherokee Supreme Court Building
• M. E. Franklin House
• French-Parks House
• Indian University of Tahlequah
• Dr. Irwin D. Loeser Log Cabin
• Leonard M. Logan House
• Rosamund House
• Tahlequah Armory
• Tahlequah Carnegie Library
• Joseph M. Thompson House
• Illinois Campground

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, Oklahoma and List of National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma