was the capital of the Creek Nation, and informally known as the "Indian Capital of the World". The Nation granted the land to Bacone and the Baptists. In 1885 Indian University was moved to a new building at its present site in Muskogee. It continued to develop here. In 1910, it was renamed Bacone College, after its founder and first president. Conversion to tribal college In the spring of 2018, the college struggled with severe financial difficulties. It began to lay off most employees following commencement and reported that it needed an immediate infusion of $2 million in order to continue to operate: to complete the 2018–2019 academic year and to open in the fall of 2019. The school reopened after cutting programs, reducing the number of faculty, and selling property. Among the properties sold was Bacone Commons, for $2.85 million as part of the college's 2018-2019 financial restructuring. The tribal nations in Oklahoma collaborated to take over control of the college as a consortium to revive its history as a tribal college established for Indian education. The tribes would be able to control education of their students and the arrangement would enable them to secure federal funding from the Bureau of Indian Education (in the BIA) as part of the government's treaty responsibilities to educate American Indian students. The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians approved a charter agreement in April 2019. In July 2019, the Osage Nation announced that it would charter the school as a tribal college. In August 2019 the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians also agreed to charter the college. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes approved a charter in September, and the Kiowa Tribe in February 2020. (The Muscogee (Creek) Nation chartered its own College of the Muscogee Nation.) Campus One of the first buildings to be erected was Rockefeller Hall, a three-story building made possible by a $10,000 contribution from philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. "Old Rock," as it came to be called, served as classroom, dormitory, dining hall, chapel, teacher quarters and administration building. It was razed in 1938 and a Memorial Chapel was built in its place. That was destroyed by fire but it was reconstructed in the 1990s. The historic buildings of the campus contribute to the Bacone College Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The campus contains many other reminders of Bacone's history, tradition,