Hunter 's Home , formerly known as the George M. Murrell Home , is a historic house museum at 19479 E Murrel Rd in Park Hill , near Tahlequah , Oklahoma in the Cherokee Nation . Built in 1845 , it is one of the few buildings to survive in Cherokee lands from the antebellum period between the Trail of Tears relocation of the Cherokee people and the American Civil War . It was a major social center of the elite among the Cherokee in the mid-nineteenth century . It has been owned by the state since 1948 , and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 . The mansion was built by George Michael Murrell , a wealthy white planter and merchant married to Minerva Ross , the niece of prominent Cherokee leader John Ross . He called it Hunter 's Home due to his fondness for the fox hunt . The Murrells came to Indian Territory about the time of the Trail of Tears ( 1839 ) . They furnished their house with the latest in fashions . They held 42 slaves , whom they housed in nine cabins on the large property
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Murrell Home