THREE RIVERS MUSEUM
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    • History of Davis Field
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  • Home
  • About
    • Hours and Admission
    • Board and Staff
    • Conference Room
    • Memorials
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Haunted History Tours
    • Stuffie's Friendship Sleepover
    • Railroad Day
    • Bass Reeves Western History Conference
    • Treasure Hunters Day
    • Polar Express Pajama Party
  • Gift Shop
    • Oklahombres Journals
  • Learn
    • Area History Stories, Articles & Videos
    • Educational Resources
    • Zoom in Resources for Bad News for Outlaws
    • Book Club Sign-Up
    • Kids Zone
    • Three Rivers Historian
    • Links to Other History Websites
  • Support
    • Membership
    • Volunteer!
    • Donate
  • Exhibits
    • Tulsa 1921 A Look at the Tulsa Race Massacre Traveling Exhibit
    • Girl Scouts 110th Birthday
    • Black History Month
    • History of Davis Field
  • Visit Muskogee!

Our History

Three Rivers Museum was established in 1989 as the dream of local historian Dorothy Ball, who was then chairman of the Muskogee Historic Preservation Commission.

The Museum board searched for a number of years for a suitable building to house a museum that would tell the fascinating story of the development of the Three Rivers region of Oklahoma. As one of the earliest areas west of the Mississippi to be settled, this region has a long and colorful past. In 1998,with federal grant funds, the city of Muskogee purchased the derelict Midland Valley Railroad Depot, a mission-style structure built in 1916 that had been abandoned for a number of years.

These same grant funds enabled the city to restore the Depot to its original beauty. Today, exhibits on local multi-ethnic history fill the passenger and freight areas of the depot and a charming gift shop is housed in the old ticket booth.

​In 2002, Georgia Pacific donated a 1940s-era diesel switch engine to the museum and it is open for visitors to climb aboard. Come visit us in the historic Depot District of downtown Muskogee.

Our Vision

​A regional museum dedicated to providing an education center that reflects the past history and rich multi-cultural heritage of the Three Rivers area of Eastern Oklahoma and to establish a respect for the region’s past and to contribute value and quality to it’s future.

Our Mission

​Three Rivers Museum is a regional museum dedicated to providing and education center that reflects the past history and rich multi-cultural heritage of the Three Rivers area of Eastern Oklahoma and to establish a respect for the region's past and contribute value and quality to its future.
​Three Rivers Museum was created in 1989, to collect, preserve, research, exhibit, and interpret objects that best serve to illustrate the history and heritage of the Three Rivers area of Eastern Oklahoma from 1800 to the present day.  The Three Rivers area includes Muskogee, Wagoner, Cherokee, McIntosh, Okmulgee, Haskell, Southern Mayes and Western Sequoyah counties.

Muskogee's Regional Heritage Center

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With Assistance from the City of Muskogee
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Contact Info
220 Elgin
Muskogee, OK 74401
918-686-6624
3riversmuseum@gmail.com