Martha Centennial Memorial

Martha Centennial Memorial
1896-1996 History of the Martha Community

1803 - Greer County - Part of the Louisiana Purchase
1885 - First Settler was Clint Maddox
1888 - Martha Medlin taught school 1/2 Mi N and 1/2 Mi W of present post office -- in a dugout
1889 - Baptist and Methodist churches both organized

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1889 - Post office est - named Martha Thomas Medlin named postmaster 5-18-1889 Henry C Doughty named postmaster 9-27-1892 to 11-21-1900
1889 - First school house built
1889 - First mercantile store built by Clint Maddox, Henry C Doughty and Thomas F Medlin
1889 - First blacksmith shop built by Clint Maddox
1891 - Martha cemetery founded
3-16-1896 - Courts ruled Greer was unassigend lands
1896 - Martha was Greer County Oklahoma Territory
1907 - Martha was in Jackson Co. Oklahoma
Formed from Old Greer Co Oklahoma Territory
1909 - Original plats town of Martha were filed
1910 - Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway Co built railroad through Martha

This monolith dedicated July 20, 1996

• Wikipedia: Martha, Oklahoma