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5 unusual facts about Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad


Clinton Presidential Center

Choctaw Station is a restored historic redbrick train station opened by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad in 1901 and used by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad until passenger service was discontinued in November 1967.

Foss, Oklahoma

It was served by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (Rock Island) railroad.

George Washington Donaghey

He built ice plants and roads in Arkansas and constructed water tanks and railroad stations for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad.

Hughes County, Oklahoma

When the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad built in 1895, the Edward's settlement was moved north for access to the railroad.

Johnston County, Oklahoma

In 1902, the Western Oklahoma Railroad, which became the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (CO&G), built a line southwest to northeast through the present county.


Apuckshunubbee

The Choctaw delegation also included Talking Warrior, Red Fort, Nittahkachee, Col. Robert Cole and David Folsom, both Choctaw of mixed-race; Captain Daniel McCurtain, and Major John Pitchlynn, the U.S. Interpreter.

Beasley Denson

A fluent Choctaw speaker, Miko Beasley Denson was born in the Conehatta Community and raised in the Standing Pine Community of Choctaw, Mississippi.

Pearl River, located in Neshoba, is the largest Choctaw Indian community, and is the site of Tribal government headquarters, as well as Pearl River Resort.

Benjamin Hawkins

In 1786, Hawkins and fellow Indian agents Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin concluded a treaty with the Choctaw nation at Seneca Old Town, today's Hopewell, South Carolina.

Canadian River

By the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820, the Canadian River was made the northern boundary of the Choctaw Nation.

Cedar County, Choctaw Nation

After the Choctaw Nation’s settlement by whites in the 1880s and 1890s the county became known for its hunting and fishing opportunities, and tourists from Paris, Texas and elsewhere took the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway to Antlers, Oklahoma from which they traveled east to Cedar County for hunting and fishing expeditions lasting for several days or more.

Chief Choc

In a letter dated February 17, 2006, Mississippi College received word that the NCAA has removed its policy restrictions in the use of the name Choctaw for MC athletics.

Choctaw code talkers

During recent decades Hollywood has "discovered" code talkers, but not the Choctaw code talkers.

Froilan Tenorio

On the October 1997 trip Tenorio also met with leaders of the Choctaw tribe in Mississippi, another Abramoff client for whom DeLay manipulated legislation.

George Quincy

George Quincy (born in Oklahoma, United States) is an American composer and conductor of Choctaw heritage.

Gideon Lincecum

Lincecum had contact with Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Choctaw Native Americans before the Indian Removals of the 1830s began.

Grant Jones

In 1973, the two were joined by Johnpaul Jones, an architect of Cherokee-Choctaw descent whose work designing cultural spaces has received wide acclaim.

Greenwood LeFlore

According to the historian James Taylor Carson, the US Indian agent, William Ward, "refused to enroll the Choctaw claimants' reserves" in Mississippi, which undermined LeFlore's objectives for the treaty and led him to consider it a failure.

Hitchcock County, Sequoyah

The boundaries of modern-day Choctaw, Pushmataha and McCurtain counties in Oklahoma are derived largely from the work of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention.

Indian Outlaw

The narrator describes himself as a rebellious American Indian character, "Half Cherokee and Choctaw".

John Doughty

Doughty was designated major commandant of the Battalion of Artillery in September 1789, then was dispatched by President Washington to the frontier to negotiate with the Choctaw Nation for trading post sites in 1789.

LeAnne Howe

She has authored a book chapter on Choctaw history, contributed two important essays on her theory of "tribalography", and collaborated on literary criticism projects with Craig Howe (no relation), Harvey Markowitz, and Dean Rader.

Mance Lipscomb

Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother.

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Purporting to represent Native Americans before Congress and state governments in this new field, Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon used fraudulent means to gain profits of $15 million in payment from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

In 2007, Wilford Taylor, the Chief of the MOWA Choctaw Indians, agreed to participate in a DNA autosomal test that would map his genes, as part of the Genographic Project administered by the National Geographic Society.

Perry Cohea

He is referred to as Major and was involved in the removal of the Choctaw Indians from their Mississippi homelands.

Peter Pitchlynn

Believing that education was important, he persuaded the National Council to found the Choctaw Academy, located in Blue Springs, Scott County, Kentucky in 1825.

Ricky Lynn Gregg

Gregg has also begun a charity called Trail of Hope, which provides clothing for underprivileged Cherokee, Choctaw and Sioux Indians.

Robert McDonald Jones

Robert McDonald Jones (October 1, 1808 - February 22, 1872) was a member of the Choctaw Nation, Pro-Tempore of the Choctaw Senate, and prominent Confederate politician.

Solé

Solé is of African-American, Caucasian and Native American (Choctaw) descent.

Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory

Sulphur Springs was a Choctaw Indian community formerly existing in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory.

Taishanese

The digraph "lh" used above to represent this sound is used in Totonac, Chickasaw and Choctaw, which are among several written representations in the languages that include the sound.

Tobias W. Frazier

The Germans heard the Choctaw language for the first time on October 26, 1918 during a “delicate” American withdrawal of two companies of the 2nd Battalion from Chufilly to Chardeny.


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