Seger Indian Training School

United States historic place

Significant dates

Seger Indian Training School
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

35°20′41″N 98°40′11″W / 35.34472°N 98.66972°W / 35.34472; -98.66972
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1893 (1893)
NRHP reference No.	71001080^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 5, 1971
Removed from NRHP	January 1, 1973

The Seger Indian Training School was a historic school on the eastern edge of Colony, Oklahoma. John Homer Seger, a white settler in the Indian Territory, founded the school in 1893. Seger had come to the Darlington Agency in 1875 to work as a teacher, and he established the Seger Colony (the predecessor of Colony) in 1886 with 120 Arapaho. His school taught farming and industrial skills to Native Americans until it closed in 1941; one of the buildings later became Colony's public school.^[2]

The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971; at the time, its buildings were stated to be in poor condition. It was destroyed by fire under mysterious circumstances on September 7, 1971.^[3] It was removed from the Register in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Ruth, Kent (June 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seger Indian Trading School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
^ "Mystery Fire Destroys Historic Colony Schoolhouse". The Daily Oklahoman. September 8, 1971. p. 1. Retrieved August 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.