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Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing

Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing is an Oklahoma historical marker in Haskell County.

Haskell County · on OK-9, four miles east of Stigler

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Tamaha was an important port and ferry crossing on the Arkansas River in the 1830s. Many Choctaw Indians were forcibly removed to Indian Territory by steamboat via the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers to Tamaha in 1831. A post office in Tamaha opened in 1884 and a jail was built in 1886. The last steamboat touched at Tamaha Landing in 1912.

Granite marker replaced an aluminum marker that is currently located at the Tamaha jail site in Tamaha (approximately 10 miles northeast). Note from the marker program.

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Marker data: Oklahoma Historical Society, Historical Marker Program. Marker texts come from the Society's marker database, reproduced with the Society's written permission. Where the database describes a marker's location in words but records no coordinate, the pin on this page is ours, worked out from that description and marked approximate.

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