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Seger Indian Training School
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	E edge of Colony, Colony, Oklahoma
Coordinates	35°20′41″N 98°40′11″W / 35.34472°N 98.66972°W / 35.34472; -98.66972
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1893 (1893)
NRHP reference No.	71001080
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.

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 destroyed by fire under mysterious circumstances on September 7, 1971. It was removed from the Register in 1973.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Ruth, Kent (June 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seger Indian Trading School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
3. "Mystery Fire Destroys Historic Colony Schoolhouse". The Daily Oklahoman. September 8, 1971. p. 1. Retrieved August 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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