Church celebrates 160th anniversary - Eufaula Indian Journal

Church celebrates 160th anniversary - Eufaula Indian Journal

Decades before Oklahoma became a state in 1907; years before the first railroad track was laid in Indian Territory in 1870 and the year the Civil War ended, folks in a remote area of what is now McIntosh County built a church.They named their community Huttonville, after their founder, Joe Hutton, and the church New Hope Huttonville Baptist Church.New Hope has withstood time, fires, flood and shrinking congregation numbers to survive.It recently…