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Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing

Haskell County
Location: on OK-9, four miles east of Stigler
Coordinates: 35.260900, -95.062590
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: American Indians; Government; Transportation; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

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.

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

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