Fisher's Station

The 1972 National Register nomination counts Fisher's as the eleventh of the twelve Butterfield stations on the 192-mile route across Indian Territory, about three hours by stage from Colbert's Ferry. Little is known of its keeper, not even whether he was Osborne Fisher or Fisher Durant. The flat was called Carriage Point before Butterfield came, and the old name returned after the war; a Carriage Point post office opened on March 23, 1869, and lasted less than two years. Fisher's had several permanent buildings and two rock-lined wells, but it never reopened after the war.

What the plaque says

Butterfield Overland Mail Site of Fisher's Station Here was located a stage stand of the Butterfield Overland Mail route, under act of Congress, March 3, 1857. First mail stage arrived here in September, 1858, enroute to San Francisco. Service continued until the outbreak of the War Between the States. Oklahoma Historical Society, 1958

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Choctaw Cultural Center — 2.4 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's history told from the Chahta side at Calera, with galleries from Nanih Waiya to the Trail of Tears and the reservation today, a living village and daily stickball.
• Chickasaw National Capitol — 22 mi
  The red granite capitol the Chickasaw Nation finished at Tishomingo in 1898, forced out of at statehood, used as the county courthouse for most of a century and reclaimed by the Nation in 1992.

More markers nearby

• Durant — 4.4 mi
• Red River Bridge — 9.5 mi
• Colbert's Ferry — 9.5 mi
• Fort Washita — 9.6 mi