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Grades K-5: 7:55-2:45
Early Childhood: AM Class - 7:55-10:30 PM Class - 12:05-2:40
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Chouteau Elementary School opened in a Prefab Building on September 7, 1954. On September 2, 1969 a new building was built on the property on which it still remains. Our beautiful new Library was built in 1998.
OUR HERITAGE
Jean Pierre Chouteau
Father of Oklahoma
The story of our state devotes many pages to the Chouteau family. They were prominent in New Orleans before making their way to St. Louis which became the center of their fur trading business.
About the time that George Washington was President of the United States, but before the Stars and Stripes had penetrated the country west of the Mississippi River, the Chouteaus glanced toward the southwest as a possible new territory for their fur trading.
Pierre Chouteau, in 1796, with a party of French traders and a band of Osage scouts, was on his way down the river. To establish his trading post, Chouteau was looking for a place with a good stream and a rocky bottom which would provide a passable ford. While looking for a suitable place for an overnight camp, he found the place he sought. Only a mile to the east of the camp was a saline spring, vast grazing grounds stretched away for miles, and wooded hills nearby provided material for homes. The country abounded in game for the trappers, animals for food and clothing, oil for lamps, and many surplus hides for trade. This small party was the first group of white people to establish a substantial abode within the borders of what is now Oklahoma. So was started in 1796 Chouteau's trading post on the Grand River at a point now called Salina.
Fur trading with the Indians prospered. Many pelts were sent to New Orleans. More forts were started on the rivers of our Oklahoma. As the history of Oklahoma unfolded the name of Chouteau was prominent on its pages. Each year at Salina, the site of the first trading post established by white settlers, the place of Pierre Chouteau in Oklahoma's history is remembered. Here at Chouteau Elementary School our heritage is remembered daily.
Dr. Michael Burk, Principal
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Updated 04/15/08