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"The first state's penitentiary sits in the southeast portion of Oklahoma, in the county seat of Pittsburg County, in the city of McAlester. McAlester is located approximately in the center of the county on State Highway 31 and at the crossing of U.S. Highway 31 and the crossing of U.S. Highway 69 and 270. In 1869 James J. McAlester opened a store in a tent at "Crossroads," a location where Texas Road was crossed by one of the California trails. He was aware beforehand that there were coal outcroppings in the area. His store prospered, particularly after the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (Katy) constructed a line nearby in 1872. The railroad dubbed the little station "McAlester" by the U.S. Post Office Department in 1885. James Jackson McAlester was an American Confederate Army soldier and merchant, McAlester was the founder of McAlester, Oklahoma, as well as a primary developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma. He served as the United States Marshal for Indian Territory (1893-1897), one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission (1907-1911) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma (1911-1915). The State Penitentiary has always maintaine

Author

Dan M Reynolds

Publisher

Logan, Iowa: Perfection Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780692801352