Caddo
County, Okla.
Townships
TOWNSHIPS
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PLACES
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| Abilene
|
Apache |
| was
named in honor of Abilene
Medrano, captive of the
Comanches, who was known
for his pure Castillian
speech. He was the father
of Mrs. Frank Farwell,
wife of one of the first
Caddo county
commissioners. |
| Banner
|
Alden |
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| Beaver
|
Eakly |
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| Boone
|
Boone |
History of Boone township
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| Cache
|
|
1910
Census
Cache
township and creek and
took their names from the
Wichita Indian custom of
'caching' or burying
vegetables, corn, tobacco
and other articles in a
sort of pit or cistern
when they left their
homes to hunt buffalo |
| Caddo
|
|
| Caddo
is the shortened
'Cado-ha-da-cho', the
people originally located
in northwest Louisiana.
DeSoto and LaSalle both
spoke of a people in that
location as the Ceni, who
doubtless were the
Caddos, who call
themselves, even now,
Hasini. |
| Cedar
|
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| Connewango
|
Scott |
1910
Census
Connewango is a Seneca
Indian word meaning
"at the falls"
and how it came to be
applied to the in north
Caddo county, is a matter
of conjecture for history
students. At least two
Seneca villages in
Pennsylvania bore the
name, one of them the
home of Cornplanter, a
Seneca, who came with the
tribe when it migrated to
east Oklahoma. |
| Delaware
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| Doyle
|
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| Fern
|
Binger,
Lookeba |
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| Gracemont
|
Gracemont |
| The
Start of the Town of
Gracemont |
| Grand
View |
|
| Grand
View was doubtless named
for the good view of the
country one gets from the
section northwest of
Anadarko. It is one of
the several places from
which one can see the
Wichita mountains. |
| Hale
|
Broxton |
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| Highland
|
Stecker |
| |
| Hydro
|
Hydro |
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| Jefferson
|
Spring
Creek |
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| Lincoln
|
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| Lone
Mound |
|
| named
because of the lone hill
rising out of the
prairie, southwest of
Hinton. |
| Lone
Rock |
Cogar |
| 1910
Census
|
| McKinley
|
Anadarko,
Indian City USA |
| McKinley
in which Anadarko is
located was named in
honor of President
William McKinley. |
| Mound
Valley |
|
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| North
Cement |
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| North
Cobb |
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| North
Lathram |
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| Sickles
|
Sickles |
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| South
Cement |
Cement |
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| South
Cobb |
Fort
Cobb |
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| South
Lathram |
Carnegie |
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| Swan
Lake |
Alfalfa |
| |
| Tonkawa
|
|
| A
township and a creek
today mark the site of a
massacre in which the
Tonkawa Indians were
almost wiped from the
earth on the night of
October 23, 1862. About
300 strong, their
organization said to be
made up of remnants of
other tribes, they were
never friendly with other
tribes of the vicinity.
Using the Tonkawa loyalty
to the Confederacy as an
excuse to settle old
grudges, a band of Union
sympathizing Shawnees,
Caddos, Delawares,
Wichitas, Wacos, Keechi,
Cherokees, Seminoles and
Creeks, attacked them,
after destroying the
Wichita Agency here.
About 137 were killed.
The rest fled to Ft.
Griffen, Texas. The 92
surviving in 1884, were
moved to the Oakland
Agency near Ponca City. |
| Waconda
|
Bridgeport,
Hinton |
| |
| Walnut
|
Albert,
Oney PO |
| 1910
Census
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| West
McKinley |
Washita |
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| White
Bread |
|
1910
Census
- 1910
Indian Papers
White Bread and school
was named for White
Bread, Caddo chief, who
died in 1916, after
ruling about 30 years.
His name was first given
to White Bread Canyon, a
creek near by his camp
and when the was opened,
carried over. White
Bread's only daughter
died in infancy. |
| Willow
|
|
| now part
of Grady County |
| Washington
|
|
| 1910
Census |
Information
from
THE ANADARKO TRIBUNE and
OKLAHOMA PLACE NAMES
by GEORGE H. SHIRK
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