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History · Sasakwa

Sasakwa’s post office opened in 1880, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Sasakwa was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1971. Its Register listing is the Alice Brown House. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1958 on, and the census since 1910.

1880first post office
1on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Sasakwa’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Sasakwa began

When was Sasakwa founded?

1880

The Sasakwa post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 241 in 19102020 census: 80146 years
Founding year: the first Sasakwa post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Sasakwa’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Boom and bustPeaked at 781 in 1930; 80 people lived here in 2020.Mystery photos6 old photos have no date. Neighbors can guess the decade.
★ What stands out · People over time

Sasakwa, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020Peak: 781

Peaked at 781 in 1930; 80 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sasakwa’s Wikipedia page.

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Start Sasakwa’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sasakwa’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo6 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewEnrollment for Seminole Census Card 172: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Sasakwa came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sasakwa.

Read it all →

Sasakwa was originally located at a site 12 miles (19 km) west of the present townsite, where Governor John E Brown, Seminole, established a trading post, cotton gin, and 16 room mansion where he fed vagrants and poor. A post office was established in 1880, and took the name from that given his trading post by Gov John E Brown, from the Seminole word meaning "wild goose". Sasakwa Female Academy existed at Sasakwa from 1880 to 1892. At that time Sasakwa was part of the [not sure it was Creek, part of Seminole nation today] Nation in the Indian Territory. The site of the present town was moved to where the train station was located.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Sasakwa, 1880 to 1958

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Sasakwa post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 781
  5. 1936Born hereWayne Chambers is born here
  6. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Sasakwa, decade by decade

Date unknown6 to date
Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 172Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 172Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 172Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 172Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 19Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 19Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 19Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 19Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 20Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 20Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 20Date?Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 20
On the map

Sasakwa on the map in 1958

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sasakwa.

Sasakwa on the 1958 USGS map1958Sasakwa sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sasakwa.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Enrollment for Seminole Census Card 172
Retake this viewEnrollment for Seminole Census Card 172

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sasakwa’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Sasakwa

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Alice Brown House
Alice Brown House
Buildings
All 1 listings
Alice Brown HouseBuilding · listed 1982

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Sasakwa’s history

What year was Sasakwa founded?

The Sasakwa post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Sasakwa?

One place: the Alice Brown House (listed 1982).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.