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3 unusual facts about Kiamichi River


Kiamichi River

On October 29, 1961, President John F. Kennedy visited Big Cedar, east of Talihina, Oklahoma to give a speech marking the opening of the Ouachita National Forest Road.

One crashed into the south slope of White Rock Mountain above Moyers, Oklahoma, and another crashed on Big Mountain between Moyers and Kosoma.

Radiocarbon dating of charred hickory and pecan hulls found at the site indicate a date of approximately 1,200 B.C. Also found were stumps of cypress trees... a tree which has not grown in that portion of the county in perhaps hundreds of years.



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