Chisholm Spring was a small trading post in

Oklahoma Territory The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as th ...

, two miles east of present-day

Asher, Oklahoma Asher is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. The population was 393 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, a decline of 6.2 percent from the figure of 419 in 2000. Geography Asher is located at (34.98 ...

. The post was established by frontier cattleman

Jesse Chisholm Jesse Chisholm (''circa ''1805 - March 4, 1868) (Cherokee) was a Cherokee fur trader and merchant in the American West. He is known for having scouted and developed what became known as the Chisholm Trail, later used to drive cattle from Texas to ...

(for whom the famous

Chisholm Trail The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The trail was established by Black Beaver, a Lenape guide and rancher, and his friend Jesse Chisholm, a Cheroke ...

was named ) in 1847. The settlement attracted many plains Indians, but efforts to create a town were aborted when Chisholm moved to Kansas in 1862.

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Buildings and structures in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma 1847 establishments in Indian Territory {{US-ghost-town-stub