Blackburn's Station was a stage stand on the old

Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially 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 in ...

route in

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. It was located in what is now Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. The station was named for Casper B. Blackburn, an inter-married Choctaw and trader. Blackburn's Station was added to the

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(#73001568) in 1973.

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: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976. *Wright, Muriel H
"The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago"
''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 21, 2006).

References

Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Transport infrastructure completed in 1861 Buildings and structures in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory 1861 establishments in Indian Territory National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub