Riddle's Station

Captain John Riddle, the station's namesake, was among the Choctaw citizens given road privileges by the General Council at Boggy Depot in October 1858, with Tandy Walker as governor; his grant was a bridge and tollgate on Fourche Maline near his home. Every one of those acts set the same tolls. A wagon drawn by four or more horses, mules or oxen paid fifty cents, and one drawn by one or two paid twenty-five. A man and horse paid ten cents, and each animal in a drove of cattle, horses, mules, hogs or sheep paid one cent.

What the plaque says

Butterfield Overland Mail Site of Riddle'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.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Robbers Cave State Park — 7.2 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 — 19 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

• Bernard de La Harpe 1719 — 10 mi
• Mountain Station — 11 mi
• Holloway's Station — 12 mi
• The Choctaw Nation Capitol Building — 19 mi