Koweta Mission was a Creek Indian school founded in 1843 by Rev. R. M. Loughridge of the Presbyterian Bd Foreign Miss. Coweta, an ancient Creek town in Alabama, was re-established in this vicinity by Creeks who arrived at Ft. Gibson on the steamboat Facility in 1828. This was the home town of Roley McIntosh, Principal Chief of the Creek Nation West until 1859.