Place:Eagletown, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NameEagletown
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates34.033°N 94.567°W
Located inMcCurtain, Oklahoma, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Eagletown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 528 at the 2010 census.[1] Located on Mountain Fork River, approximately from the Oklahoma-Arkansas border, it was the first permanent Choctaw settlement in the Indian Territory, who called it osi yamaha ("Eagle").[2] Eagletown was an important town from 1834 to 1906, and after 1850, served as county seat for the Choctaw Nation's Eagle County. The town name was officially changed to "Eagle Town" in 1850, then changed to the present Eagletown in 1892. When Indian Territory was preparing to unite with Oklahoma Territory to form the new state of Oklahoma in 1906, Eagletown lost its county seat status and became just another unincorporated community in the new McCurtain County.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Eagletown, Oklahoma. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Eagletown%2C_McCurtain%2C_Oklahoma%2C_United_States"