Fisher's Station, also known as Carriage Point, was a stage stand on the old

Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service i ...

route and the

Texas Road The Texas Road, also known as the Shawnee Trail, Sedalia Trail, or Kansas Trail, was a major trade and emigrant route to Texas across Indian Territory (later Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri). Established during the Mexican War by emigrants rushin ...

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. It was located at the head of Island Bayou in what is now Bryan County, Oklahoma. Island Bayou was then the dividing line between the

Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as ...

and Choctaw Nations. From March 23, 1869, to February 6, 1871, the Carriage Point post office existed at the site and it is generally referred to by that name in the area. The Fishers were a well known Choctaw family. Fisher's Station (Carriage Point) was added to the

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(#72001058) in 1972.

References

Sources

*Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987: . *Wright, Murial H.; George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. ''Mark of Heritage''. Oklahoma City:

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, 1976. *Wright, Muriel H
"The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago"
''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 19, 2006). Buildings and structures in Bryan County, Oklahoma Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory National Register of Historic Places in Bryan County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations in Oklahoma Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub