Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . s being one of the mostprofitable fields in that neighborhood. Ever since the railroad ar-rived Lenapah has been a good shipping point, much of the freightgoing to and from some of the inland towns being loaded and un-loaded here. Quite a number of well developed farms adjacent tothe town assist in making it a busy little place. Lenapah has two banks, several churches and, considering thesize of the town, it has a
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . s being one of the mostprofitable fields in that neighborhood. Ever since the railroad ar-rived Lenapah has been a good shipping point, much of the freightgoing to and from some of the inland towns being loaded and un-loaded here. Quite a number of well developed farms adjacent tothe town assist in making it a busy little place. Lenapah has two banks, several churches and, considering thesize of the town, it has an unusually good public school teachers constitute its faculty, and in addition to the commonschool grades, it maintains a very good high school. wann The prosperous little town of Warm is situated in the north-western part of Nowata on a branch of the Missouri, Kansas andTexas Railroad extending from Parsons, Kan., to OklahomaCity. It has a population of 500, supports several churches, abank, several good general stores and a good public school, withall the grades from the primary up to and including a high school,eight teachers being employed. SAVOY HOTEL, NOWATA. MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 655 ALLUWE There are several little towns in Nowata County which are notfortunate enough to be located on any railroad, but which havegood stores and schools, the most important of these villages beingAlluwe. One of the first discoveries of oil in this section of thestate was made near Alluwe and if it could have secured a rail-road, it might have developed into quite a city. It is located in thesoutheastern part of the county, very near the Verdigris River andis a good rural trading point. It has several good stores, churchesand a very good public school in which eight teachers are employed. Nowata County has the reputation of being one of the most pro-gressive counties in Oklahoma. Its citizenship consists of pro-gressive men who have come from all parts of the United
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