Tahlequah in Cherokee County, Oklahoma — The American South (West South Central)

Billy B. Walkabout

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 26, 2017

1. Billy B. Walkabout Memorial Bench

Inscription.

Distinguished Service Cross
awarded to
Billy B. Walkabout
for action on Nov. 20, 1968
Vietnam

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and Communities • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Vietnam.

Location. 35° 51.138′ N, 94° 59.354′ W. Memorial is in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in Cherokee County. It is on Cottonwood Street 0.1 miles south of Muskogee Avenue (U.S. 62), on the left when traveling south. Memorial is on the Cherokee Nations Veterans Center grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Tahlequah OK 74464, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Cherokee Nation

and in Northeast Oklahoma — Green Country.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Ozarks,

on the prairies,

and on the Southern Plains.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Louisiana Purchase.

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least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Cherokee Warrior Memorial (here, next to this marker); John Noah Reese, Jr. (here, next to this marker); Jack C. Montgomery (a few steps from this marker); Park Hill (approx. one mile away); Riley's Chapel (approx. 1.1 miles away); Park Hill Press (approx. 1.1 miles away); Trail of Tears (approx. 2.1 miles away); The Blacksmith Shop (approx. 4.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Tahlequah.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 26, 2017

2. Billy B. Walkabout Memorial Bench

Bench in center foreground

Credits. This page was last revised on October 23, 2021. It was originally submitted on October 8, 2017, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 772 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 8, 2017, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.