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History · Tushka

Tushka’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Tushka. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story

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In 1872, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (Katy) built a track five miles south of Atoka in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory and created a settlement which it called Peck Switch, Indian Territory. The first post office was established in 1903. The name was changed to Lewis in 1905, honoring the first postmaster, Charles Lewis. In 1909, the community was renamed Dayton, but was changed during the same year to the present Tushka. Tushka is a Choctaw word meaning "warrior".

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Famous people close to Tushka

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Lowell FulsonLowell FulsonAtoka · 5 miPatrick J. HurleyPatrick J. HurleyLehigh · 11 miRFRalph FaudreeDurant · 26 miCRCrystal RobinsonAtoka · 5 miWWWarren WombleDurant · 26 miPatrick SmithPatrick SmithCoalgate · 15 mi
By decade

Tushka, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings 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 Tushka is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Tushka has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Dunbar School in Atoka, 4.6 miles away.

Tushka and the nearest listed places

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Dunbar SchoolJoe Ralls HouseFirst Presbyterian ChurchPioneer ClubFirst Methodist Church BuildingOld Atoka State Bank

Closest to Tushka

Dunbar SchoolAtoka · Building4.6miJoe Ralls HouseAtoka · Building5miFirst Presbyterian ChurchAtoka · Building5.1miPioneer ClubAtoka · Built 19055.1miFirst Methodist Church BuildingAtoka · Building5.1mi

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. Dunbar School’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Tushka?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Tushka’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

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📜 Atoka📜 Caney📜 Lehigh📜 Stringtown
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