The community began in 1903 when Ran Woods and others constructed a two-room log schoolhouse on the site. The schoolhouse, no longer standing, was once attended by former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Carl Albert. The settlement was allegedly named by Woods, who felt that the bugs at the site were so numerous that they were an endless "tussle". Bugtussle is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of McAlester. It was renamed Flowery Mound circa 1907, but the original name persisted. At the time of its founding, Bugtussle was in Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, in the Indian Territory.
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