The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Etowah developed as a rural community east of Noble, Oklahoma along Etowah Road, emerging on the route that connected Purcell, Oklahoma and Tecumseh, Oklahoma after the Land Run of 1889 opened the surrounding Unassigned Lands to non-Native settlement.
The name was reported by historian George H. Shirk to have been adopted from a Cherokee settlement in Georgia, and is commonly traced to a Muscogee word meaning “town.”
An Etowah post office was established in 1894 and discontinued in 1907 when rural free delivery from Noble reached the area. By 1911, the settlement had about seventy-five residents and supported two general stores, a blacksmith, and a cotton oil mill. A community homecoming began in the 1930s and continued for decades.
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Then & now
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