Walker'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

Indian Territory Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the Federal government of the United States, United States government for the relocation of Native Americans in the United States, ...

. It was located at the old Choctaw Agency in Skullyville, in what is now

Le Flore County, Oklahoma LeFlore County is a county along the eastern border of the U.S state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 48,129. Its county seat is Poteau. The county is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the name honors a Choc ...

. The station was named for Tandy Walker, Choctaw chief, and later, Governor of the Choctaw Nation. The old Choctaw Agency building was his residence. Wright, Muriel H
"The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago"
, ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 23, 2006). Walker's Station was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

(#72001074) in 1972.

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Buildings and structures in Le Flore County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory National Register of Historic Places in Le Flore County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub