Webbers Falls is a town in southeastern Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States.

They had a treaty with the United States government by 1828, which helped settle some conflicts with the Osage people, who had been forced to give up land to the Cherokee.

[6] Webber also built a salt works, leasing the land for the latter from the Cherokee government, which held it communally as a tribe.

The Western Cherokee resisted sharing their territory with immigrants to be resettled from the Southeast, as the US government proposed in 1834.

[10] Mostly from Joseph Vann's and his father's plantations, the slaves locked masters and overseers in houses and cabins, stole guns and ammunition, horses and mules, food, and other supplies, then started traveling south.

Five were executed for having killed two slavecatchers they encountered to free a fugitive slave family from the Choctaw reservation.

Vann put his surviving slaves to work as laborers and coal stokers on his steamboats.

[10] Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie established a headquarters at Webbers Falls during the Civil War.

[11] The town got a rail line to Warner, Oklahoma in 1911 courtesy of the Webbers Falls, Shawnee and Western Railroad.

[12][13][14] Construction in 1970 of the Webbers Falls Lock and Dam created Webbers Falls Reservoir and Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam, created the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, both part of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS), operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Automobiles and semi-trucks fell into the water, killing 14 people (including a three-year-old girl) and two horses.

[15] On May 22, 2019, two barges loaded with fertilizer broke loose from Muskogee County and were heading to Webbers Falls Lake.

They were part of a tow that had been docked along the river because of the extremely high water level and the speed of the current.

The barges suffered major damage as they overturned and dumped their cargo into the flood, then sank to the base of the dam.