Wagoner County

Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Wagoner County was named after the town of Wagoner. The town was named after Henry "Bigfoot" Wagoner, a Katy Railroad dispatcher from Parsons, Kansas.

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Chief Pushmataha

Choctaw Indians made hunting expedition from Mississippi to this region, Jan. 1807, led by famous Chief Pushmataha. Camped east on Verdigris River was Joseph Bogy, French trader among Osages, w…

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Koweta Mission

Creek Indian School founded by Rev. R.M. Loughridge Presbyterian BD Foreign Miss., 1843. Coweta, ancient Creek town in Alabama, reestablished in this vicinity by Creeks who arrived Ft. Gibson o…

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Texas Road (The Shawnee Trail)

Texas Road: The most Ancient and important trail through Oklahoma. --- Three Forks: At the head of navigation of the Verdigris River the oldest trading post in Oklahoma dating from 1812. …

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Wagoner

Became Indian Territory's first incorporated town Jan. 4, 1896 under Mansfield's Digest of the Laws of Arkansas. The citizens (about 2,000) sought to form a city government to provide improveme…

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Wigwam Neosho

Wigwam Neosho was a trading post from 1829–33, named and operated by Sam Houston, Ex-Gov. of Tennessee and future president of the Republic of Texas. Houston was called Colonneh (The Raven) by …

  1. County information from Wikipedia.
  2. Population from U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.