Limestone Gap, Oklahoma
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Limestone Gap was an unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States. The town is now abandoned. A type of limestone is named after the site on Limestone Creek.[1]
A post office was established at Limestone Gap, Indian Territory on March 29, 1875; it closed on February 28, 1922. From September 22, 1897 to July 15, 1901 the name of the post office was Limestone. The area is now known as Gap.[2]
At the time of its founding, Limestone Gap was located in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation.[3]
Gravestones in a cemetery there had deaths dating from 1886 to 1940.[4] Charles LeFlore, a deputy US marshal, who served as captain of the Indian Police, had a ranch there.[5]
References
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), pp. 125-126.
- ↑ Morris, John W. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
Script error: No such module "Navbox".