The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was named for a local landmark, a plank cabin, that existed near the place where the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway built a switch in 1871–2. The first post office in this part of Indian Territory opened in 1872. (though it was not named Big Cabin until 1892). Some entrepreneurs built a stockyard in the town in 1888. The first two-story frame building was constructed in 1892. In 1892 the Post Office Department assigned a postal designation to Big Cabin. A school for non-Indian children began in 1895. The railroad built a depot in 1903.
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2000
Nothing in Big Cabin is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Big Cabin has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cabin Creek Battlefield in Pensacola, 7 miles away.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.