Near Oktaha in Muskogee County, Oklahoma — The American South (West South Central)

Farming and Communities · along the Texas Road

Honey Springs Battlefield

— Interpretive Trail Four · Battle at the Bridge —

Farming and Communities along the Texas Road Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, March 20, 2024

1. Farming and Communities along the Texas Road Marker

Inscription. The landscape up and down the Texas Road was part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. It was dotted with homes, barns, orchards, pastures, and trading posts. On both sides of Elk Creek are remnants of farmhouses and family cemeteries.

The area is also home to numerous mammals, reptiles, and birds including black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, striped skunks, coachwhips, king snakes, copperheads, water moccasins, timber rattlesnakes, western diamondback rattlesnakes, ground skinks, box turtles, red-winged blackbirds, yellow-billed cuckoos, crows, scissor-tailed flycatchers, red-tailed hawks, eastern meadowlarks, horned owls, screech owls, and turkey vultures. Migrating birds include several varieties of ducks and geese as well as American bald eagles and blue herons. Insects and arachnids are too numerous to mention but include chiggers and many varieties of ticks, for which visitors are urged to check when leaving the battlefield.

Erected 2019 by Friends of Honey Springs Battlefield.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Agriculture • Animals • Indigenous Peoples

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and Communities. In addition, it is included in the Honey Springs Battlefield series list.

Location. 35° 33.071′ N, 95° 28.441′ W. Marker is near Oktaha, Oklahoma, in Muskogee County. It can be reached from Honey Springs Battlefield Road 1½ miles north of East 1020 Road, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Oktaha OK 74450, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Oklahoma’s Muscogee Nation

and specifically in the Cherokee Nation.

It is also in the American South,

specifically 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.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: How We Know What We Know · Archeological Surveys & Interviews (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); How We Know What We Know (about 300 feet away);

Photographed by Mark Hilton, March 20, 2024

2. Farming and Communities along the Texas Road Marker

View of marker looking East along Trail Four.

Battle for the Bridge (about 400 feet away); The Toll Bridge and Fords · Crossing Elk Creek (about 600 feet away); How We Know What We Know · Official Reports (about 600 feet away); Defending the Bridge · and other Fighting along Elk Creek (about 600 feet away); Southern Camps (about 600 feet away); 1st and 2nd Regiments of Cherokee Mounted Rifles (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Oktaha.

Credits. This page was last revised on March 25, 2024. It was originally submitted on March 24, 2024, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 224 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 24, 2024, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.