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Pontotoc County, OK
· 4.7 mi
Pontotoc County unfolds as classic Cross Timbers country, a place where prairie grasses meet the scraggly embrace of post oak and blackjack oak forests. This is the Sequoyah region, where the rolling hills speak of…
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Pontotoc County, OK
· 5.1 mi
Pontotoc County is a community in Oklahoma.
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Teague, Bertha Frank
· 6.3 mi · Eohc
You're driving past Byng, Oklahoma, a place that became a basketball powerhouse thanks to Bertha Frank Teague. She started coaching girls' basketball in 1927, even though she'd never played the game herself. Teague…
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Byng
· 6.3 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Pontotoc County, and right here is Byng. This town popped up in 1917, not because of a railroad, but for a power plant and a post office. It was named after Sir Julian Byng, a British hero from…
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Francis
· 8.5 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Pontotoc County, past the community of Francis. This place owes its very existence to the railroad! Back in 1900, the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway was being built. When the tracks…
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Fitzhugh
· 9.5 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Pontotoc County, passing the community of Fitzhugh. Did you know this town is named after Fitzhugh Lee, a Confederate general? While he didn't camp here during the Civil War as legend has it, he…
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Stonewall, OK
· 12.2 mi
Stonewall, Oklahoma, nestled within the Cross Timbers region of Pontotoc County, emerged as a community from the area's rolling hills and mixed woodlands. The town's history reflects its Southern roots, as it was named…
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Stonewall
· 12.2 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Stonewall, Oklahoma, a town with a story that literally moved. It started before the Civil War, as a trading post named Pontotoc. By 1875, it was a bustling settlement, even home to the Chickasaw…
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Steed, Thomas Jefferson
· 13.4 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Seminole County, and right here is Konawa, the Oklahoma town that shaped a congressman who served longer than any other Oklahoman in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thomas Jefferson Steed, born…
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Konawa
· 13.4 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Konawa, a town with a name meaning 'string of beads.' Konawa itself is pretty young, really getting its start in 1904 when a Seminole man sold land for the townsite. But its story really begins a…
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Shape-Note (Fa-Sol-La) Singing
· 13.4 mi · Eohc
You're driving through eastern Oklahoma, a place where a unique musical tradition once thrived: shape-note singing. Developed in the 18th century, this method used different geometric shapes for musical notes, making it…
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Roff
· 13.7 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Pontotoc County, passing the town of Roff. This community owes its existence to Joseph T. Roff, a rancher who settled here in 1883. A small settlement grew along the Blue River, and by 1890, a…
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Coal County, OK
· 13.7 mi · Local history
Coal County lies cradled within the Arkansas Valley, its landscape a tapestry woven with rolling hills and fertile bottomlands. The geology here speaks of ancient seas, later uplifted and eroded, leaving behind a…
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Green Corn Rebellion
· 14.7 mi · Eohc
Right here in Oklahoma, in August of 1917, tenant farmers launched the Green Corn Rebellion. Fueled by anger over land control, falling prices, and the draft, hundreds of men—white, Black, and Native American—gathered…
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Sasakwa
· 14.7 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Sasakwa, a town whose name means 'wild goose' in Seminole. It started as a settlement with a trading post, but really took off during the 1920s oil boom, swelling to over 700 residents! But…
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Jumper, John
· 14.7 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Seminole County, and right here, you're passing through the heart of Seminole Nation history, thanks to Chief John Jumper. Born in Florida around 1820, Jumper fought against the U.S. in the Second…
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Stratford
· 16.1 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Stratford, Oklahoma, right now. This town owes its very existence to a railroad that bypassed its predecessor. Back in 1906, the Oklahoma Central Railway decided to build its line two miles south…
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Allen
· 16.7 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Allen, Oklahoma, a town that started with a split personality! Back in the 1880s, settlers gathered at a place called Cold Springs. But when the railroad came through in 1909, it bypassed the…
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Hickory
· 18.1 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Murray County, past the tiny community of Hickory. Named for the abundant hickory trees along Mill Creek, this town was founded in the late 1880s. While farming and ranching kept folks busy,…
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Tupelo
· 18.8 mi · Eohc
You're driving through Coal County, near Tupelo. This town got its start in 1903 when Charles M. Witter had the land surveyed. It was named after Tupelo, Mississippi, the hometown of entrepreneur William Napoleon…
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Johnston County, OK
· 19.1 mi
Johnston County, Oklahoma, nestled in the Cross Timbers, offers a landscape where the prairie begins its gentle rise into the Arbuckle Mountains. This meeting of biomes, a lowland South transition zone, gave the county…
