Address Restricted, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. County/parish: Cherokee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000627.
1 contributing building.
The Cherokee National Capitol (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ ᏧᏂᎳᏫᎢᏍᏗ ᎠᏓᏁᎸ), 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. It now serves as the site of the tribal supreme court and judicial branch. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 for its role in the Nation's history.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86510616