Oak Hill Industrial Academy

Oak Hill, Elliott Hall 1912

Oak Hill Industrial Academy (also known as the Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy or Elliott Academy) was founded as a day school and later became a boarding school for Choctaw Freedmen. It existed from 1878 to 1936. It was located in the far southeastern corner of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The original location was in the southwest corner of Section 27 near the present-day Valliant, Oklahoma.[1] But in 1902 it was rebuilt in the northeast quarter of section 29 near the western line of McCurtain County, Indian Territory.[2] The school closed in 1936, and no evidence of it other than a historical marker remains.

  1. ^ Flickinger, Robert Elliott (1914). The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy. Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen. pp. 101–102. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. ^ Flickinger (1914), pp 220–221