Abbott, Oklahoma

Abbott is a former community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, 11 miles northeast of Antlers, Oklahoma.[1]

Prior to Oklahoma's statehood Abbott was located in Wade County, a part of the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.[2]

Abbott, Indian Territory was granted a United States Post Office on March 3, 1897; it closed on July 11, 1899. The community, a short-lived boomtown created by the logging industry—which used its rail spur to ship timber via the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway—is no longer in existence.[3]

More information on Abbott may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Abbot Post Office (historical)
  2. Morris, John W. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.
  3. George B. Shirk, Oklahoma Place Names, p. 3; Post Office Site Location Reports, Record Group 28, National Archives


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