The tribal citizens had Black slaves, she noted. Allowed file extensions are: txt, pdf, jpeg, mp4, png, jpg . It traces its roots back to 1850 when a school was built in the area by members of the Creek Nation. Address. Tom Casey checks his father's post office box in 1982. The town began in 1850, when the Creek Nation approved the Tullahassee Mission School at this site on the Texas Road. [2] The building reportedly housed a grocery store until sometime in the 1950s. Tullahassee was, and still is, the closest Oklahoma Black township to Tulsas Greenwood District. Phone: 918-683-4611. Located west of Muskogee in Muskogee County, the town was originally named for William H. Twine, the editor of the Muskogee Cimeter; the name was changed to Taft in 1904 to honor William Howard Taft, then secretary of war and later president. Only the skeleton of the structure remains. That pride in our community and the love that we have for one another is whats going to carry us through to revitalizing our community.. 2023 Town of Tullahassee, OK. All rights reserved. She eventually graduated from nearby Muskogee High School. Davis was voted as the first town manager of Tullahassee in September 2020. On Dec. 19, there will be a public, Christmas block party. It was on a trip to Los Angeles, where Davis was on the hunt for resources for the town, that she connected with Garcettis office and learned about the MORE coalition. But the harsh economic reality of the Great Depression proved too much for towns like Tullahassee. And as a developer, my overall goal in the long term is to really go into making right where systemic racism made wrong. Discover the beauty hidden in the maps. Other All-Black towns in Oklahoma, as shown on the sign across from the post office. Porter town treasurer Joy Hendrix said the town has no intention of cutting off the water supply to Tullahassee and is willing to work with the town. The coalition includes representatives of some of the nations largest cities: Los Angeles, Austin, Denver. In the early 2000s, the community gym, which would draw hundreds of people on the weekends for basketball games, was shuttered.