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Old Mail Route

Rogers County
Location: on the grounds of Blue Whale of Catoosa Park on OK-66, Catoosa vicinity
Coordinates: 36.193683, -95.732683
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Mathews
Topics: Mass Communication; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

This marker commemorates a mail relay station on the stage road between Vinita and Tulsa known as Fort Spunky. A post office was at this station from 1880 until 1883, when the Catoosa post office was designated with John Schrimsher as postmaster.

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