HUNTER’S HOME
Historic Plantation — 19479 East Murrell Home Road, Park Hill, Oklahoma
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public · est. 1845
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/hunters-home-park-hill-oklahoma/

Historic plantation in Park Hill; research record.

Hunter’s Home is a historic plantation in Park Hill, Oklahoma. Historic plantation in Park Hill; research record. Built in 1845, the house was Minerva Murrell’s home within an 800-acre Cherokee Nation plantation. Local lore holds that The historical society documents site-specific legends presented by reenactors.

Hunter's Home is the only antebellum plantation house left in Oklahoma — the Greek Revival mansion George Murrell built in Park Hill in the Cherokee Nation in 1844, on the land his wife's family had been removed to. Murrell was a Virginia merchant who married Minerva Ross — the niece of Principal Chief John Ross — and came west with the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. The house he built in Indian Territory was the Virginia plantation transplanted: the columns, the springhouse, the slave cabins, the whole form of the South reproduced on the frontier the Cherokee were exiled to.
The house was the Cherokee elite's social center — the Murrells entertained the nation's leadership and the Fort Gibson officers, and the plantation ran on the enslaved labor the Cherokee planters, like their white counterparts, kept. The Ross family's faction led the Nation; the Murrells' house was the place where the Cherokee aristocracy's world was enacted in the style of the class they'd been removed from.
The Civil War split the Nation the way it split the country — Ross was Union, Stand Watie was Confederate, and both sides burned the leaders' houses. Hunter's Home survived — one of the few in Indian Territory that neither faction torched, the house that was the Ross family's by marriage and the Murrell family's by blood, standing through the war that destroyed the world it was built in.
Hunter's Home is the archive's Cherokee file — the plantation house in the Nation that survived the Trail of Tears and the Civil War, the Greek Revival on the frontier that was built by a man who'd married into the chief's family and chose removal over separation, the only one of its kind left in Oklahoma.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Hunter's Home is the archive's removal file — the plantation house built in the Cherokee Nation after the Trail of Tears, the only antebellum plantation surviving in Oklahoma, the house that outlasted the war that burned the other chiefs' homes on both sides.
A plantation that survived the removal keeps its columns — the file's suggestion being that Hunter's Home's hold is the transplant: the Virginia form built on the land the Cherokee were sent to, in the house that was the Nation's elite society and survived the war that destroyed the world it represented.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] haunting: The historical society documents site-specific legends presented by reenactors. The site in Park Hill, Oklahoma gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Hunter’s Home in Park Hill to Present Virtual Ghost…' carries the account. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.
  source: Hunter’s Home in Park Hill to Present Virtual Ghost Stories during October (https://www.okhistory.org/about/pressrelease?id=1377)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Built in 1845, the house was Minerva Murrell’s home within an 800-acre Cherokee Nation plantation. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Hunter’s Home in Park Hill to Present Virtual Ghost…' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Hunter’s Home in Park Hill to Present Virtual Ghost Stories during October — Oklahoma Historical Society
  https://www.okhistory.org/about/pressrelease?id=1377
· Plan Your Visit — Hunter’s Home — Oklahoma Historical Society
  https://www.okhistory.org/sites/visit-hunters-home

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