The first Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school opened by the
Cherokee Nation in 1851 in
Park Hill, Oklahoma. On Easter Sunday 1887, a fire burned the building, but the head of the school, Florence Wilson, made sure all the girls got out. Two years later, in 1889, the new
Cherokee Female Seminary
The Cherokee Female Seminary, (not to be confused with the first Cherokee Female Seminary), was built by the Cherokee Nation in 1889 near Tahlequah, Indian Territory. It replaced their original girls' seminary that had burned down on Easter Sund ...
reopened and still stands just north of
Tahlequah.
Today the
Cherokee Heritage Center
The Cherokee Heritage Center (Cherokee: Ꮳꮃꭹ Ꮷꮎꮣꮄꮕꮣ Ꭰᏸꮅ) is a non-profit historical society and museum campus that seeks to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts, language, and traditional crafts of the Cherokee. ...
stands on the grounds of the original Cherokee Female Seminary. The only
Classical Revival
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...
architecture features to survive the 1887 fire, the school's columns still stand today and are surrounded by roses.
See also
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Cherokee Male Seminary The Cherokee Male Seminary was a tribal college established in 1846 by the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. Opening in 1851, it was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the United States to be founded west of the Mississippi Rive ...
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Northeastern State University
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
Education in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)
Tribal colleges and universities
Female seminaries in the United States
Neoclassical architecture in Oklahoma
Historic American Buildings Survey in Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma