Hatsboro, Oklahoma Explained

Hatsboro
Settlement Type:Ghost town
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Oklahoma
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Bryan
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2000
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Postal Code Type:ZIP codes
Blank Name:FIPS code
Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID

Hatsboro is a ghost town in Bryan County, Oklahoma located near Fort Washita.[1] [2] The town was also known as Rugglesville.[3] [4] The town was located across a creek west of the fort near the Chickasaw Indian Agency; the town's inhabitants were the families of soldiers and fort employees.[3] [5] The town, which was located in Chickasaw Nation, was sizable enough to be given a post office in the 1850s.[6] After the U.S. Army abandoned the fort, the town also was abandoned.[4] By 1929, the town site was being used as farmland, and by 1943, the United States Department of the Interior reported that "a few ruins" were all that was left of the town.[1] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Morrison, W.B. "A Visit to Old Fort Washita," Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. 7 No.2 (June 1929): p. 177-78. Accessed April 19, 2015.
  2. United States Department of Indian Affairs. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: 1865, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1865, p.440. Accessed April 19, 2015.
  3. Morrison, W.B. "Fort Washita," Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. 5 No.2 (June 1927): p. 253. Accessed April 19, 2015.
  4. Grice, Gary K. History of Weather Observing at Fort Washita, Oklahoma 1842-1861 . Asheville, North Carolina: Climate Database Modernization Program,NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, February 2005, p.2. Accessed April 19, 2015.
  5. United States Department of the Interior. Report on the recreational resources of the Denison dam and reservoir project : Texas and Oklahoma, October 1943, p.18-19. Accessed April 19, 2015.
  6. Gibson, Arrell M. The Chickasaws. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, p. 225.

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