The Seger Indian Training School was a historic school on the eastern edge of

Colony A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their ''metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often orga ...

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John Homer Seger John Homer Seger (February 23, 1846 – February 6, 1928) was an American educator best known for his work with the Arapaho tribe in Oklahoma. Early years Seger was born in Geauga County, Ohio, and grew up in Dover, Bureau County, Illinois. Hi ...

, a white settler in the

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, founded the school in 1893. Seger had come to the

Darlington Agency The Darlington Agency was an Indian agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation prior to statehood in present-day Canadian County, Oklahoma. The agency was established in 1870. The agency established at Fort Supply the previous year w ...

in 1875 to work as a teacher, and he established the Seger Colony (the predecessor of Colony) in 1886 with 120

Arapaho The Arapaho ( ; , ) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed t ...

. 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

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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.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma School buildings completed in 1893 Buildings and structures in Washita County, Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Washita County, Oklahoma Former National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub