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Mekasukey Mission schoolDescription
Photograph of Mekusukey Mission School for boys, located southwest of Seminole.
Mekasukey Mission Academy was built in 1891 for the education of Creek and Seminole boys. The school was an imposing looking structure, the show place of the area. It was four stories high, and unlike most public buildings, had electricity, steam heat, and indoor plumbing, with water piped from a nearby spring.
The school had a staff of 20, and though it could accommodate up to 100 students, enrollment was usually kept between 80-90. The school was almost self-sufficient. Students raised meat, vegetables, and dairy products. Since is was a boarding school, all the teachers and employees lived on campus. Teachers were supposed to speak only English, and children were not allowed to speak Seminole during the nine month school term.
The Academy was closed in 1930, then later burned. Mekasukey Academy was addded to the National Register of Historic places on March 3rd 1974.