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Academic Building, Wheelock Academy, Millerton, OK
Academic Building, Wheelock Academy, Millerton, OK

**Wheelock Academy** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000949, date listed 10/15/1966

E of Millerton on U.S. 70

Millerton, OK (McCurtain County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Wheelock Academy is the archetype for the tribal school system established by the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory. As the first national academy founded under the Choctaw Nation's Act of 1842, Wheelock set precedent for some 35 academies and seminaries maintained by the Five Tribes.

Wheelock Academy is still owned by the Choctaw and is administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Though the school is no longer open, several residences are located nearby and the grounds are maintained by local Indians. The academy is located three miles east of Millerton, Oklahoma.

Wheelock began as a mission school, established in 1832 by Reverend Alfred Wright. A graduate of Williams College and Andover Theological Seminary, Wright was missionary to the Choctaws from 1853 until his death in 1889. He named the school after Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Moor's Indian School, later to become known as Dartmouth College. It was Wright who reduced the Choctaw language to writing and published some 60 books in that tongue. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

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