Doaksville Candlelight Tour

Fort Towson Cemetery
Red Road
Fort Towson, OK 74735
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Doaksville Candlelight Tour

Address:
Fort Towson Cemetery
Red Road
Fort Towson, OK 74735
Phone:
580-873-2634

Head to Fort Towson this fall for the annual Doaksville Candlelight Tour featuring a half-mile walk full of fascinating history. The tour will make stops at the headstones of notable, local people buried in the 180-year old Doaksville Cemetery.

Scholars and re-enactors stationed at the gravesites, dressed in historical clothing, bring the names on the headstones to life through storytelling. Biographies and histories of the tour span from early settlers to the Civil War and the War of 1812 veterans. This year's tour will feature stories from "The Choctaw Intelligencer," a local Doaksville newspaper from the nineteenth century. Visitors will learn about hot topics covered in the 1851 editions of the paper like local politics, a measles outbreak and John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic. 

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Pricing

Admission: $8
Children age 6 & under: Free

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the pricing listed above, prices are subject to change without notice.

Amenities

Hours

Friday: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Saturday: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tours leave every 30 minutes beginning at 7pm.
Last tour of the night leaves at 9:30pm.
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