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The Town That Almost Wasn’t: Rewriting the Founding of Madill, Part I

Summary by madillrecord.net
I. Prologue: History has long assured us that Madill was founded in a straightforward way: a Virginia-bornranchernamed William Norborne Taliaferro “owned” six hundred acres of fertile land near Oakland in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, and when the Frisco Railroad came surveying through Indian Territory in 1900, his ranch became the townsite. That is what the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, published by the Oklahoma Historical S…
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madillrecord.net broke the news in Madill, United States on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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