Stapp, Oklahoma
History
The community originally formed in 1897 in Indian Territory under the name of Thomasville, about the time the Long-Bell Lumber Company purchased property there. The company created a subsidiary, the King-Ryder Lumber Company (that was also in Bon Ami, Louisiana), which built a lumber mill at Thomasville and even a railway, the Kingston and Choctaw Valley Railroad, which ran from Thomasville to connect to other rail lines at Howe, Oklahoma. King-Ryder left about 1901, but other timber operations continued in the area.
The settlement was later reborn as Stapp, and had a Buschow Lumber Company sawmill. Stapp had a post office beginning in 1918. However, the Buschow mill, a victim of its own "cut and move on" timber policies, closed in 1932, and the post office followed in 1944. While at its height the population of the settlement was about 1,000, nothing remains of the old town today.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stapp, Oklahoma
- ^ Oklahoma Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 57 ISBN 0899332838
- ^ "The King-Ryder Lumber Company and the Louisiana & Pacific Railway at Bonami, Louisiana in 1902". American Lumberman Magazine (accessed on the Texas Transportation Archive). Retrieved December 9, 2021.
- ^ "Kingston & Choctaw Valley Railroad Company (King-Ryder Lumber Company's tram at Thomasville, Oklahoma)". Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern (accessed on the Texas Transportation Archive). Retrieved December 9, 2021.
- ^ "Mill Towns (Lumber)". Larry O’Dell, Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
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