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Chickasha / ˈ tʃ ɪ k ə ʃ eɪ / is a city in and the county seat of Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 16,051 at the 2020 census , a 0.1% increase from 2010. [ 5 ] The city is named for and strongly connected to Native American heritage, as "Chickasha" ( Chikashsha ) is the Choctaw word for Chickasaw .
March 10, 2005 (Roughly bounded by 1st St., 3rd St., Kansas Ave., 7th St., and the alley north of Chickasa Ave. Chickasha: 2: Grady County Courthouse
Grady County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,795. [1] Its county seat is Chickasha. [2] It was named for Henry W. Grady, an editor of the Atlanta Constitution and southern orator.
An entire black community, alive with homes, businesses, churches, and social clubs developed in Chickasha. This community, while by necessity interacting with the larger city in which it thrived, was for the most part an entity unto itself, lacking only an official political voice. The glue that held this community together was the church.
Their daughter Mabel Ann was born in Chickasha in 1939. Mabel Ann possessed an exceptional operatic voice and recorded three albums of sacred music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, two with the Ralph Carmichael orchestra. She died in 2002, some six months after her father's passing. [5]
The Express-Star, "Grady County's News Source", is a weekly newspaper published one day a week in Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States. The publication covers Grady County, Oklahoma. It is published Thursday. [1] The publication is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings LLC., a company founded in 1997 by Ralph Martin. [2]
The Chickasha Express Star is a Thursday weekly newspaper in Chickasha, Oklahoma. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings LLC. "Newspapers" Archived 2012-07-24 at archive.today , CNHI.com (accessed February 25, 2010).
Will Watie Wheeler established several businesses in the town during the 1880s and 1890s. These included a cotton gin, saw mill, grist mill and lumberyard. In 1896, he opened the Coffin Shop, which later became the Wheeler Funeral Home. The latter was still doing business in Sallisaw in the twenty-first century. [5]