==================================================== This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. ======================================================== Caddo County Historical Dates The following is a list of dates of major events, prior to the settling of the county. Taken from Anadarko Newspaper in 1986 Dragoon Expedition under Captain Nathan Boone traversed Caddo County Captain Randolph Marcy and party of troops escorted California emigrants across northern part of county. 1854 Army Engineers survey across Caddo County for Pacific railway 1855 Major Elias C. Rector, Fort Smith, Ark. superintendent of the Five Tribes agency, was directed to survey Washita Valley adjacent to 98th Meridian for purpose of establishing reservation. Indians moved from Brazos Reservation in Texas to what is now Kiowa jurisdiction Fortifications and soldiers’ quarters erected at FortCobb 1861 March 5, federal troops abandoned posts at Fort Cobb 1861 After federal abandonment, Confederate troops occupied Fort Cobb. 1861 First Indian agency permanently located on Leeper Creek near Washita under Confederate auspices for one and a half years following federal evacuation 1861 In autumn, all Indians left this vicinity to join either federal of Confederate troops 1862 Camp McIntosh, a Confederate post, was established near the Washita River between Anadarko & Verden The Tonkawa Massacre occurred Oct 23, when Plains Indians wiped out the Tonkawas an razed the agency In May, the Camp Napoleon Compact was drawn at the camp of that name in Cottonwood Grove near Verden In October, the Comanche, Kiowa and Plains Apache Indians signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty which assigned them to the present reservation from the Washita River south to the Red River General Wm. B. Hazen was named Indian Special Agent with headquarters at Ft. Cobb 1868 On Nov. 27, marauding Plains Indians massacred the Cheyenne; The Famous Chief Black Kettle was also killed 1869 In Spring, Fort Cobb was finally abandoned The Wichita Indian Agency, with affiliated tribes, was established in the lower slope of the hill just north of Anadarko Wichita Indian school was established at the Wichita Agency 1872 Anadarko’s post office was established. Name was selected in honor of Nadarko Indians who were practically extinct Aug. 28, six civilians were killed and four white soldiers wounded in out break of Kiowas. Raiding parties tool toll among Wichita and Caddo 1878 Sept. 1 Comanche and Kiowa Agency was moved from Fort Sill to the Wichita jurisdiction The Wichita-Caddo school, now known as Riverside, was moved and built on its present site after having been destroyed by fire during the summer In July, the Anadarko Masonic Lodge was chartered 1895 Major Frank D. Baldwin of the army arranged for the erection of the agency at Old Town on the south side of the Washita River Government allotting agents set out allotments for Caddo and Wichita tribesman June 6, Congress resolved that the Wichita and Caddo nations should be allotted by December 6. This was not completed so another deadline was set for Aug. 6, 1901 1901 Aug 6, the Caddo-Wichita-Kiowa-Comanche county was opened to settlement and land sales were held