Seger Indian Training School

Seger Indian Training School
Location E edge of Colony, Colony, Oklahoma
Coordinates 35°20′41″N 98°40′11″W / 35.34472°N 98.66972°WCoordinates: 35°20′41″N 98°40′11″W / 35.34472°N 98.66972°W
Area 6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built 1893
Governing body Federal
NRHP Reference # 71001080[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 5, 1971
Removed from NRHP January 1, 1973

The Seger Indian Training School was a historic school on the eastern edge of Colony, Oklahoma. John Homer Seger, a white settler in the Indian Territory, founded the school in 1893. Seger had come to the Darlington Agency in 1875 to work as a teacher, and he established the Seger Colony (the predecessor of Colony) in 1886 with 120 Arapaho. His school taught farming and industrial skills to Native Americans until it closed in 1941; one of the buildings later became Colony's public school.[2]

The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971; at the time, its buildings were stated to be in poor condition. It was removed from the Register in 1973.[1]

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