The Battle of "Caving Banks" was fought on Dec. 9, 1861, between 1500 Texas and Indian cavalrymen under Confederate Col. D.H. Cooper and 2500 loyal Creeks and Cherokees en route to Kansas with Chief Opothle Yahola. The struggle centered on a log house at the tip of the Horse-Shoe Bend in Bird Creek west of this point. Fifteen Confederate dead are buried on this battlefield, and many others are buried in unmarked graves.