Holloway's Station

William Holloway, the stand's namesake, held a Choctaw charter granted at the General Council's October 1858 session at Boggy Depot: a turnpike and tollgate at The Narrows, the notch between wooded hills just west of his home on upper Brazil Creek. He apparently left when service stopped in 1861, and in 1866 the gate privilege at the same place went to Jack McCurtain. When the Conklings retraced the road in 1930 they found scattered foundation stones and signs of a well, and in 1971 the old grade could still be seen climbing out of the pass.

What the plaque says

Butterfield Overland Mail Site of Holloway'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

• Robbers Cave State Park — 17 mi
  A sandstone cave in the Sans Bois Mountains north of Wilburton, wrapped in outlaw stories, and the park that Boy Scouts, prison labor and the CCC built around it.
• Tvshkahomma Capitol Museum — 26 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's 1884 brick capitol in the Kiamichi valley, seat of its senate, house and supreme court until statehood, now the Nation's museum and the ground of its Labor Day Festival.

More markers nearby

• Riddle's Station — 12 mi
• Battle of the J.R. Williams — 20 mi
• Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing — 20 mi
• Bernard de La Harpe 1719 — 22 mi