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FORT TOWSON — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation were investigating a fatal shooting Saturday that involved a trooper and a Choctaw County deputy at a bar ...
Fort Towson, now the Fort Towson Historic Site, 896 N 4375 Road in the town of Fort Towson, is 215 miles southeast of OKC, 175 miles south of Tulsa, in Choctaw County. The Fort Towson 200th ...
Fort Towson is a town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 510 at the 2010 census, a 15.1 percent decline from the figure of 611 recorded in 2000. [ 4 ] It was named for nearby Fort Towson , which had been established in May 1824 and named for General Nathan Towson , a hero of the War of 1812 . [ 5 ]
Fort Towson was a frontier outpost for Frontier Army Quartermasters along the Permanent Indian Frontier located about two miles (3 km) northeast of the present community of Fort Towson, Oklahoma. Located on Gates Creek near the confluence of the Kiamichi River and the Red River in present-day Choctaw County, Oklahoma , it was named for General ...
History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State , American Guide Series , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74–82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via Google Books
The U.S. Army set up Fort Towson near the Red River in what would later become southeastern Oklahoma. It played a major role in the nation's westward expansion from 1824 until it was closed in 1854.
Choctaw County is in southeastern Oklahoma, in a 10-county area designated for tourism purposes by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation as Choctaw Country. [7] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 800 square miles (2,100 km 2 ), of which 770 square miles (2,000 km 2 ) is land and 29 square miles (75 ...
This week, Oct. 6-12, is Oklahoma Newspaper Week. Take a few moments and pause to appreciate the work of your local newspaper. Reflect on the times the local newspaper covered local events ...