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At the top of Honor Heights in Muskogee Oklahoma an old school sits between a large water tank and a hospital. It is visited each year by hundreds of people. However, many who visit the site leave with no knowledge that it was once a school. The site is the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, and the school was once known as Evangel Mission School. It is the only structure of a Freedman School that remains standing in the state of Oklahoma. Established in 1883, and placed in the Old Agency Building for the Creek Nation, this structure stands beautifully on the hill with only a school bell to hint to visitors that it may have at one time, been a school. Evangel Mission, is a school that we must not forget.
By Angela Y. Walton-RajiAt the top of Honor Heights in Muskogee Oklahoma an old school sits between a large water tank and a hospital. It is visited each year by hundreds of people. However, many who visit the site leave with no knowledge that it was once a school. The site is the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, and the school was once known as Evangel Mission School. It is the only structure of a Freedman School that remains standing in the state of Oklahoma. Established in 1883, and placed in the Old Agency Building for the Creek Nation, this structure stands beautifully on the hill with only a school bell to hint to visitors that it may have at one time, been a school. Evangel Mission, is a school that we must not forget.