“Sequoyah Bay State Park is a paradise for water sports and camping along the 225-mile shoreline of Fort Gibson Lake near Wagoner. Enjoy a variety of water sports on the lake’s 19,100 surface acres as you create memories for a lifetime with a stay at Sequoyah Bay State Park. The full-service Cypress Cove Marina offers gas, food, ice, bait, tackle, boat rentals, slips, fishing dock and cabin rentals.”
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“From weekend getaways to weddings and live music, every visit is an experience worth remembering. Patios, pool tables, game rooms, saunas and more. We are a destination event dream!”
“The Flower Meadow is a seasonal u-pick flower farm and barnyard experience designed for families, couples, photographers, and anyone who wants a peaceful break outdoors. Come stroll the flower fields, create your own bouquet, say hello to our animals, and enjoy the kind of moments that slow time down.”
“Offers a family friendly 10-Room Motel, Boat and Watercraft Rentals, RV Sites, and Vacation Mobile Homes. Our Marina is part of Taylor Ferry, nestled along the scenic shores of Fort Gibson Lake. Situated on the Grand River, just 5 miles Northwest of the historic Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, the lake spans Wagoner, Cherokee, and Mayes Counties, extending upriver to Lake Hudson.”
“Porter, Oklahoma is the Official Peach Capital of the state of Oklahoma, and the best place for the most delicious peaches is Livesay Orchards. From picking your own peaches to hayrides, pumpkin patches and corn mazes and hosting the famous Porter Peach Festival! Seasonal hours may affect activities.”
“Drivers and visitors can catch views of large herds of wild mustangs roaming and grazing in the expansive private pastures that serve as a contract facility and “retirement home” for un-adoptable wild horses flanking the highway. Located off the entrance and exit ramp on the east side of the Creek Turnpike and E. 31st Street South.”
Wagoner’s very being was built around the Katy railroad. In 1889 the original WagonerSwitch, which was located about a mile south of town, was moved north to the hub ofrailroad activity in Wagoner. Muskogee residents would take an evening train to Wagoner,spend the night in one of the hotels along the tracks, and take the early train south toArkansas. Wagoner was referred to in Muskogee papers as the X-Road. One Sunday in June1895, 46 trains had stopped in Wagoner. Although the first depot had been built in 1888, ithad been used hard by the two railroad lines and was known as “the old, dilapidated Valleydepot”. Talk was going on that Wagoner would have two new depots. In 1896 the Katy finallybuilt its first and only depot in Wagoner. The newspaper reported that it was planned toaccommodate a town of 20,000 people and the cost would be a whopping $800. ByFebruary 1908 a newspaper announced that 16 passenger trains and four locals stopped inWagoner every day. The Katy Depot has returned home to Wagoner and renovations areplanned.
The Mission Bell Church in Coweta, Oklahoma, originally built as the First Presbyterian Church in 1907, is a historic late Gothic Revival landmark located at 204 South Bristow Avenue. In 1907, Presbyterian parishioners hauled red brick up a remote hilltop east of a Creek Indian town to build the frontier chapel. Downtown Coweta later formed just a block west of the site. A centerpiece of the church is its original chandelier, which was shipped by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, then up the Arkansas River to the Coweta landing in 1907. The roof fell inward by 1908, closing the building temporarily, but it was repaired and reopened a year later. By 1918, the congregation grew to 34 members. The church held its final regular services in the 1960s before being abandoned for a period. Volunteers transformed the building into the Mission Bell Museum in 1972 to preserve local antiquities and community heritage. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 following restoration efforts in the 1990s. Today, the building still contains 10 of its original 32 oak pews, sloped hardwood floors, and the historic hanging chandelier. It functions today as a unique local venue and event space.
In 1843, Presbyterian missionary Reverend Robert McGill Loughridge and his wife, Olivia, established the Koweta Mission and school. They bought an empty log cabin for ten dollars to start teaching Muscogee (Creek) children. Loughridge named the mission “Koweta” to honor an ancestral Lower Creek town located in Georgia. In 1842, Robert traveled to Coweta to meet with the Creek Council, who gave him permission to open a mission, despite prior tribal resistance to Protestant missions. The school and mission operated continuously until the outbreak of the American Civil War. It was abandoned in 1861. The institution served as one of the earliest educational foundations in Indian Territory, paving the way for future community and public schooling in the area. Olivia Loughridge and her child are buried nearby at the historic Bruner Family Cemetery, which formerly served the mission school.
