• Historic Significance: Event
• Area of Significance: Native American, Education, Transportation, Politics/Government
• Period of Significance: 1825-1849, 1850-1874, 1875-1899
• Owner: Private , Local Gov't
• Historic Function: Domestic, Government
• Historic Sub-function: City Hall, Post Office
• Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence
• Current Sub-function: Agricultural Fields

Known also as Old Town and Oak Lodge, Skullyville was settled by the Choctaws in 1832 when they were removed from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Since the Choctaws were the first to arrive in Indian Territory, Skullyville was one of the first communities in Oklahoma. As a center where federal annuities were paid to the Choctaws, it became the site of the first Choctaw Agency and the capital of the Choctaw Nation as well as a political and education center. When Fort Coffee, established nearby on the Arkansas River in 1834 to protect the tribe, was abandoned about 1845, it became the Fort Coffee Academy for Boys and operated until the Civil War. Another Methodist school, the New Hope School for Girls, lasted from about 1845 until the Civil War, then reopened in 1871 and operated until 1896. The Skullyville Constitution of 1857 established a stable government for the Choctaw Nation here. During the Civil War, the town was a Confederate outpost and suffered Union attacks that destroyed many buildings. Although Skullyville (sometimes spelled Scullyville) was the first stop in Indian Territory on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in the late 1850s, it never regained its former importance. When the railroad bypassed the area, Skullyville was finished. Nothing remains of the old town except the cemetery, one of the oldest in Oklahoma. Located east of Spiro off SH-9.

• Wikipedia: Skullyville, Oklahoma
• Skullyville Cemetery
• Chronicles of Oklahoma - Volume 16, No. 2 - June, 1938 - "THE SAGA OF SKULLYVILLE"