Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . furnish the people who make them their tradecenters with all the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. VINITA Vinita, the county seat of Craig County, is located southeastof the center of the county at the intersection of the Missouri,Kansas S: Texas Railway with the Frisco. Mr. D. M. Marrs, an old citizen, and for many years editor ofthe Vinita Leader gives the following sketch of the origin andgrowth of
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . furnish the people who make them their tradecenters with all the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. VINITA Vinita, the county seat of Craig County, is located southeastof the center of the county at the intersection of the Missouri,Kansas S: Texas Railway with the Frisco. Mr. D. M. Marrs, an old citizen, and for many years editor ofthe Vinita Leader gives the following sketch of the origin andgrowth of the city: A generation ago, or to be more explicit, in the fall of 1869,there might have been seen struggling through the rank under-brush, or toiling through the tall prairie grass, a party of menlocating a route for a railroad along the line now traversed by theMissouri, Kansas and Texas, south of the Kansas line, and headedsouthward toward Texas and the Gulf. It was a fine autumn dayin the early part of October. The green and gold and purple ofthe leaves of the timber that scantily skirted the streams made apretty picture in the soft, hazy sunshine. The party scrambled up. HIGH SCHOOL, VINITA MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 661 the south bank of Cabin Creek and strolled leisurely out onto themore elevated prairie and struck camp, or rather came up withthe wagon outfit which had preceded them, though by a circularroute, and had gone into camp earlier in the afternoon. The gangof men were under instructions to locate a station thirty miles orthereabout from the state line; and their record of chain lengthstold them that they had about reached the place. The circumam-bient line of timber on the north and east, following the undula-tion of the stream, and stretching away to the southward, the longline of Indian summer clouds that melted away before the eveningsunset, the magnificent adjacent country, all tended to fix the con-viction upon those interested that a finer locatio
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