Historical Marker
Geary's Station
Atoka County · Oklahoma
Erected by Oklahoma Historical Society, 1958
A. W. Geary, an intermarried citizen of the Choctaw Nation whose wife, Lucy, was the sister of a Choctaw chief, kept this stand. In 1858 the Choctaw Nation granted him the right to build a bridge and tollgate where the Fort Smith-Boggy Depot road crossed Little Boggy Creek, also called North Boggy, and when Butterfield's coaches took that road the crossing became Geary's Station, sometimes Geary's Crossing. From here the mail followed the older Texas Road southwest. The creek bottom where the station stood is now under the Atoka Reservoir, and the plaque is set in the dam.
What the plaque says
Butterfield Overland Mail Site Inundated Geary'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
34.44578, -96.08263 · Directions
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