Muskogee

Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma. It is sometimes referred informally among its residents as "the 'Gee." The city's current mayor is John Tyler Hammons, first elected in 2008 at the age of 19. The 1951 film Jim Thorpe, All American, starring Burt Lancaster, was filmed on the campus of Bacone Indian College at Muskogee. Two feature films were recently shot in Muskogee: Salvation (2007) and Denizen (2010). French fur traders were believed to have established a temporary village near Muskogee in 1806, but the first permanent settlement was...