Claremore Mound

Claremore Mound

Coordinates: 36°23′06″N 95°39′33″W / 36.385°N 95.6591667°W / 36.385; -95.6591667

Claremore Mound, a hill in present-day Rogers County, Oklahoma, is the site of the Battle of Strawberry Moon where in 1817 a band Cherokees under Chief Spring Frog (Too-an-tuh) wiped out Chief Clermont's band of Osage Indians. The mound and the nearby city were both named in honor of Chief Clermont.

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