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Saturday May 27, 2017
150th Anniversary Celebration of
Historic Choate Cabin
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Statehood Settlement: The Choate Cabin Museum located in Indianola, Oklahoma is listed on the National Register of Historic Place and was built in 1867 by George Washington Choate. Choate, a Choctaw was a Civil War Soldier, Tobucksy County Sheriff and Judge, last President of the Choctaw Senate before Oklahoma Statehood, and Acting Chief of the Choctaw Nation. The Choate Cabin is located on the grounds of the Bynum Family Homestead and will celebrate its 150th Anniversary in 2017. The Bynum Family Homestead was a three generation family home located in Indianola. The home was built in 1903 by J.H. Bynum. Bynum was an early Oklahoma settler, Indianola's first postmaster, and a local merchant and business man. The J.H. Bynum Mercantile was the most notable of the Bynum family's endeavors in the northernmost part of the Choctaw Nation and Pittsburg County Oklahoma.
