Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah

Name: Cherokee Heritage Center
Address: 21192 S. Keeler Drive, Tahlequah, 74451, United States
Telephone: +1 918-456-6007

#1 among attractions in Tahlequah

Top attraction, History museum, Specialty museum, Museum

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The Cherokee Heritage Center 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. The Heritage center also hosts the central genealogy database and genealogy research center for the Cherokee People. The Heritage Center is located on the site of the mid-19th century Cherokee Seminary building in Park Hill, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tahlequah, and was constructed near the old structure. It is a unit of the Cherokee National Historical Society and is sponsored by the Cherokee Nation, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and other area tribes. The center was originally known as Tsa-La-Gi but is now known as the Cherokee Heritage Center. ()

Coordinates: 35°52'2"N, 94°57'20"W

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21192 S. Keeler DriveTahlequah 74451 United States

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+1 918-456-6007

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Cherokee Heritage Center – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Northeastern State University, Cherokee National Capitol, Murrell Home, Cherokee National Jail.

3.9 miN
Historical place, Architecture, Historic walking areas
Northeastern State University, Tahlequah
99 min walk • Northeastern State University is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The university also has two other campuses in Muskogee and Broken Arrow as well as online.
3.2 miN
Neo-renaissance architecture
Cherokee National Capitol, Tahlequah
83 min walk • The Cherokee National Capitol, now the Cherokee Nation Courthouse, is a historic tribal government building in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Completed in 1869, it served as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. It now serves as the site of the tribal supreme court and judicial branch.
0.8 miS
Museum, History museum
Murrell Home, Cherokee State Park
21 min walk • The Hunter's Home, formerly known as the George M. Murrell Home, is a historic house museum at 19479 E Murrel Rd in Park Hill, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma in the Cherokee Nation.
3.2 miN
Museum
Cherokee National Jail, Tahlequah
81 min walk • The Cherokee National Jail or Cherokee National Penitentiary was built in 1874 as part of a governmental complex for the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It served the Cherokee Nation until it was sold to Cherokee County, Oklahoma, which used it as a jail into the 1970s.
3.7 miN
Universities and schools
Seminary Hall, Tahlequah
96 min walk • The 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 Sunday two years before. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
4.3 miN
Sport, Sport venue
Doc Wadley Stadium, Tahlequah
110 min walk • Doc Wadley Stadium located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the home stadium of the NCAA Division II college football team the RiverHawks of Northeastern State University.