Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . BANK OF MUSKOGEE, 1901, SECOND AND OKMULGEE STREETS,NOW THE MUSKOGEE NATIONAL BANK. Courtesy of C. W. Turner MAIN STREET, MUSKOGEE, WINTER OF 1881 MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 363 tract ing and building business. They built the Turner block, theEnglish block and the Mid-Continent building, the latter beingthe first five-story building erected in Indian Territory. Thesepioneer builders are still engaged in bu
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . BANK OF MUSKOGEE, 1901, SECOND AND OKMULGEE STREETS,NOW THE MUSKOGEE NATIONAL BANK. Courtesy of C. W. Turner MAIN STREET, MUSKOGEE, WINTER OF 1881 MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 363 tract ing and building business. They built the Turner block, theEnglish block and the Mid-Continent building, the latter beingthe first five-story building erected in Indian Territory. Thesepioneer builders are still engaged in business in Muskogee,although they dissolved their partnership several years ago. WILLIAM A. MADDIN William A. Maddin was another one of the men who aidedmaterially in making a real city of the village of Muskogee. Hecame from Kansas City in 1883, and for the following ten years hefollowed the business of contractor and builder. In 1894 he organ-ized a hardware company which flourished for several years, butlike nearly all the other stores of the town, it was converted intoashes by that 1899 fire. After the fire he built the three-storybrick building which is now the home of the Y. M. C. A. and filledit with a new stock of hardware and farm implements. He esta
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