Okmulgee County
Okmulgee County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,069. The county seat is Okmulgee. Located within the Muscogee Nation Reservation, the county was created at statehood in 1907. The name O ...
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
. It is located about 15 miles northeast of the City of Okmulgee, the county seat, off of
Oklahoma State Highway 16
State Highway 16 (SH-16 or OK-16) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs in an irregular 99.2-mile west-to-east pattern through the northeastern part of the state, running from SH-33 at Drumright to SH-51 at Wagoner. There are no letter-s ...
. A post office was established here in 1896, but was closed in 1908. Nevertheless, the town was fueled by oil money, and had a population of 150 in 1923.
Bald Hill was the location of a mansion on a high hill belonging to Enos Wilson. Wilson was recognized in 1935 by the Superintendent of the
Five Civilized Tribes
The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by European Americans in the colonial and early federal period in the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek ...
as then being the “world’s richest Indian.” A paper referred to the mansion as “his famous peak castle.”
Bald Hill is now considered a ghost town.