Settled in 1829, named for Walter Webber, Western Cherokee Chief, who had a trading post here. Home of "Rich Joe" Vann to 1844, owner of "Lucy Walker," quarter mile race horse, for which he named his Mississippi River steamboat. In Civil War battle, April 25, 1863, Webbers Falls was burned by Federal troops.

Marker is on OK Route 100 (U.S. 64) 0.2 miles east of 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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