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History · Phillips

Phillips’s history is
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The public archives hold just one old photo of Phillips. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story

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A post office was established at Phillips, Indian Territory on April 2, 1892. It closed on April 2, 1927. It was named for Henry L. Phillips, a coal mine operator.

At the time of its founding, Phillips was located in Atoka County, a part of the Pushmataha District of the Choctaw Nation.

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Timeline

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1903Denison and Washita Valley Railway. Map Showing…Map
1910–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Phillips’s history is told.

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Famous people close to Phillips

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CRCrystal RobinsonAtoka · 10 miMWMuriel Hazel WrightLehigh · 2 miJRJohn H. RossColeman · 20 miATAl TateColeman · 20 miCMChristopher MaclaineWapanucka · 15 miGCGuy CantrellClarita · 12 mi
By decade

Phillips, decade by decade

1900s1 paper
Denison and Washita Valley Railway. Map Showing. Additional Station Grounds at Phillips. Choctaw Nation, Ind. TerMapDenison and Washita Valley Railway. Map Showing. Additional…1903
1910s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Phillips is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Phillips has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Coalgate School Gymnasium-Auditorium in Coalgate, 2 miles away.

Phillips and the nearest listed places

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Coalgate School Gymnasium-AuditoriumUnited States Post Office CoalgateMerchants National Bank BuildingBenjamin Franklin Smallwood HouseKeel Creek BridgeMiddle Boggy Battlefield Site and Confederate Cemetery

Closest to Phillips

Coalgate School Gymnasium-AuditoriumCoalgate · Building2miUnited States Post Office CoalgateCoalgate · Built 19402.4miMerchants National Bank BuildingLehigh · Building2.8miBenjamin Franklin Smallwood HouseLehigh · Building4.2miKeel Creek BridgeCottonwood · Structure8.5mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Coalgate School Gymnasium-Auditorium’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Phillips?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Phillips’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Coalgate📜 Lehigh📜 Atoka📜 Stringtown

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