Boggy Depot, Oklahoma

Boggy Depot, Oklahoma

Boggy Depot is a ghost town in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. It grew as a vibrant and thriving rural town in present day Atoka County and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route between Missouri and San Francisco. It also sat on the old military trail from Fort Smith, westward, to Fort Washita and Fort Arbuckle. However, when the MKT Railroad came through Atoka County in 1876, it bypassed Boggy Depot and the town began a steady decline. By the early 1900s all that remained of the community was a sort of ghost town. It was soon replaced by Atoka as the chief city in Atoka County.

The ruins of the church house at Boggy Depot, which served as the capitol of the Choctaw Nation in 1859, can still be seen in historic Boggy Depot State Park.

Boggy Depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#72001050) in 1972.

Further reading

*Wright, Muriel H. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v005/v005p004.html "Old Boggy Depot"] , "Chronicles of Oklahoma"5:1 (March 1927) 4-17 (retrieved August 16, 2006).

External links

* [http://www.touroklahoma.com/detail.asp?id=1+5U+3585 Boggy Depot State Park]

BOMIT stations
stationw = Nail's Station
milew = 17
milee = 16 | statione = Geary's Station


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