Tullahassee, OK

Tullahassee is a town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 83 residents. Tullahassee was the location of Tullahassee Mission, an Indian boarding school that burned in 1880. Tullahassee is considered the oldest of the surviving all-black towns in former Indian Territory. Students are zoned to Porter Consolidated Schools. The Tullahassee Manual Labor School, located in Tullahassee, Oklahoma was originally used as a Creek boarding school and became a school for Creek Freedmen to gain education beyond an elementary school level.

That mix gives Tullahassee a clear local shape within Oklahoma, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The town began in 1850, when the Creek Nation approved the Tullahassee Mission School at this site on the Texas Road. In 1914, the African Methodist Episcopal Church opened Flipper-Key-Davis College, also called Flipper-Davis, in the former Tullahassee Mission building.