Bokoshe, OK Post Office 1980

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Updated: 11 Nov 2009

Post office established September 29, 1886.
The word is Choctaw for "little creek."

Submitter & Researcher: John Moyer
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Bokoshe is a small town located in LeFlore county in southeastern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Highway 31 runs through downtown Bokoshe.

The town of Bokoshe, was sometimes called Shake Rag, because the only way the train would stop was for someone to flag it down. Sometime in the 1880s or 90s the town was named officially, Bokoshe

Created: 05 Nov 2009
Updated: 11 Nov 2009

Complied and transcribed by Sue Hearon, 2008-2009.