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Boggy Station
Atoka County
Location: four miles south of OK-7 bridge on Clear Boggy River in Boggy Depot State Park
In 1857, Congress created the Butterfield Overland Mail Route to carry mail and passengers between St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, and points west. It was the first real transcontinental link between the Atlantic states and the Pacific Coast of the United States. There were twelve stations along a 197-mile route in Oklahoma, including Boggy Station.

Butterfield Trail
Atoka County
Location: Confederate Memorial Museum and Cemetery, Atoka
Sponsored by: The Lake Atoka Reservation Association, Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust, City of Atoka, City of Oklahoma City
On September 16, 1857, the John Butterfield Company received a federal contract to transport mail from Missouri to San Francisco in under 25 days. Semi-weekly trips began a year later.

Confederate Cemetery
Atoka County
Location: on US-69 at the Confederate Memorial Museum on the east side of Atoka
The cemetery contains graves of Confederate soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

First Baptist Church
Atoka County
Location: in Atoka (OHBC)
This church is the oldest white Baptist church in Oklahoma with continuous service. It was organized May 6, 1869.

Geary's Station
Atoka County
Material: Granite
This site was the location of a stage stand of Butterfield Overland Mail Route, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1857. The first mail stage arrived here in September 1858, en route to San Francisco. Service continued until the outbreak of the War Between the States.

Middle Boggy Battle Site
Atoka County
Location: on US-69 near bridge over Middle Boggy Creek
Material: Granite
On this site lie Confederate soldiers who died in battle, February 13, 1864. The Confederate encampment here at Middle (or Muddy) Boggy Crossing on the Boggy Depot Road was held by Lieutenant Colonel John Jumper, Seminole Battalion. Captain Adam Nail's Company A of First Choctaw and Chickasaw Cavalry and a detachment of the Twentieth Texas Regiment was suddenly attacked by Federal forces; three companies of Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry with Major Charles Willetts in command and a section of howitzers under Captain Solomon Kaufman. The Confederates, though poorly armed, made a firm stand in a kat fight of thirty minutes in which forty-seven of their men were killed and others wounded. Word of Confederate forces riding in from Boggy Depot (1.2 miles southwest) caused a harried retreat of the Federal troops toward Fort Gibson north.

Oklahoma's First Catholic Church
Atoka County
Location: at 2001 South Mississippi Avenue in Atoka
Material: Aluminum
St. Patrick's Church was built in 1872. Father Isidore Robot was the first resident priest and the first Prefect Apostolic of Indian Territory. Robot later founded Sacred Heart Mission in the Potawatomi lands east of present-day Asher.

Old Boggy Depot
Atoka County
Location: on west side of Boggy Depot State Park
Material: Aluminum
Boggy Depot was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route. See Boggy Station.

Stringtown Shoot-Out
Atoka County
Location: 1/2 mile north of southern entrance to Stringtown on Hwy 69
Sponsored by: Gwin Walker
Near this place on August 5, 1932, Atoka County Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and Deputy Sheriff Eugene Moore were involved in a shoot-out with Clyde Barrow, Raymond Hamilton, Everett Milligan, and James Acker. (Although not known at the time, Bonnie Parker was also present.) The incident occurred when the two lawmen tried to arrest the men at a dance in Stringtown. As the lawmen approached, the foursome opened fire, killing Moore instantly and severely wounding Maxwell.

Waddell's Station
Atoka County
Location: on county road three miles west of Wesley
Material: Granite
Waddell's Station was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route. See Boggy Station.

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