About one-quarter mile southeast of this point, a huge native stone marks the site of Old Agency of the former Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The agency was established in 1868-69, and the white authorities unusually permitted Blackfeet chiefs to choose its location. They chose the place they knew as Four Persons because of pleasant memories associated with it, after some of their warriors had overtaken and killed four furtive Crees there a few years earlier. At Old Agency, in 1869, the first government agricultural experiment was conducted, and in 1872 the first public school was opened for the benefit of the Blackfeet, though neither project became notably popular with them. That same year, they were impressed by young Brother Van, a circuit-riding Methodist lay preacher, less for the sincere fervor of his preaching than for his courage, skill, and stamina during a buffalo hunt staged in his honor. The Northwest Fur Company and I. G. Baker and Brother operated licensed Indian trading posts near the agency, bartering tobacco, beads, and other essential goods for furs. At his own request, Big Lake, a great chief of the Blackfeet, was buried on a high point overlooking Old Agency so his spirit could look down on his people as they came to trade. After a Congressional Act of April 15, 1874 moved reservation boundaries north to Birch Creek, Old Agency on the Teton was abandoned in 1876.