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7 unusual facts about McAlester


Ben Golden McCollum

McCollum was convicted of both bank robberies and sentenced to a forty year term at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Brian Shackelford

Brian Wesley Shackelford (born August 30, 1976 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

McAlester

J. J. McAlester (1842–1920), American Confederate Army soldier and merchant

Miles D. McAlester (1833–1869), Union general in the American Civil War

McAlester, Oklahoma

Susie McEntire-Eaton, Sister of Pake & Reba McEntire, Country/Gospel Singer

A number of New York businessmen, including Levi P. Morton, Levi Parsons, August Belmont, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Denison and John D. Rockefeller were interested in extending rail line through Indian Territory, and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, familiarly called the Katy Railroad, began its corporate existence in 1865 toward that end.

Minnesota Correctional Facility – Oak Park Heights

The MCF-OPH facility, together with the H Unit of Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, was featured in a one hour TV documentary titled "Maximum Security Prisons", produced by Alan Hall (Beyond Productions) for the "On the Inside" series of the Discovery Channel.


Clachan, Kintyre

Once the home of Coll McAlester, who led the first large settlement of highlanders in North Carolina at Cross Creek in the Cape Fear River valley in 1739, and later the home of Sir William Mackinnon, the house is now a self-catering residence.

International Order of the Rainbow for Girls

The first Initiation consisted of a class of 171 girls on April 6, 1922, in the auditorium of the Scottish Rite Temple in McAlester.

KTMC

KTMC-FM, a radio station (105.1 FM) licensed to McAlester, Oklahoma, United States

McAlester Arboretum

It should not be confused with the Garrard Ardeneum in McAlester, Oklahoma, which is sometimes called the McAlester Arboretum.


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