Sasakwa was the home of Gov. John F. Brown, who for 34 years served as Principal Chief of the Seminole Nation after succeeding his father-in-law, Chief John Jumper. Jumper was colonel of the 1st Regiment Seminole Mounted Volunteers in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and Brown was a lieutenant in the 1st Regiment Creek Mounted Volunteers, C.S.A. Each in turn was pastor of Spring Church, founded in 1850 by Baptists near here.