Saline Courthouse, Leach, Delaware County, OK
Summary
Significance: This simple frame structure is the last remaining representative of the system of district courts of the Cherokee Nation. As such it is a reflection of an aspect of jurisprudence rare in American history: a court operating within the United States, but for most of its existence subject only to the Cherokee Constitution, and not to the United States Government; the judiciary of a civilized people who regarded themselves as sovereign, and as a peer of the United States.
Survey number: HABS OK-33
Building/structure dates: 1884-1887 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1912 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1933 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hale, William O
Wilson, Joe I
Phillips, John
Perkins, S W
Grashof, Bethanie C, field team
Higgins, Vicki J, field team
Holmes, Nicholas H, field team
Swayze, Roger D, field team
Tomlan, Michael A, project manager
Smalling, Walter, photographer
Hnedak, John D, historian
McCown, Susan, historian
Location
Leach, 36.20481, -94.92245
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html