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a timbered flat between the south bank of Brazil Creek and the northern entrance to "The Narrows." As recently as 1930 there remained a few scattered foundation stones and some evidence of a well to locate the site. Now only the cemetery stones are left and — if one looks closely — portions of the old Butterfield road grade as it climbed rather sharply out of the narrows. The gradient of the present county road is much less than that of the Butterfield road, and in its construction it cut through and/or filled up sections of the old stage trail. But traces of it can still be found to suggest what stage travel on the frontier was like more than a hundred years ago."
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Most evidence of the station was gone by 1971. A cemetery with a few stones remained, the most prominent being for an 1875 burial. "The Holloway's site is immediately across the road, to the northwest of the cemetery. Though altered by road construction, it is an attractive spot, a small clearing on
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Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
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National Register of Historic Places in Latimer County, Oklahoma
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Wright, Murial H.; George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks.
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Buildings and structures in Latimer County, Oklahoma
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It is located about .5 miles (0.80 km) east of
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Holloway's Station is located in Oklahoma
Holloway's Station is located in the United States
Red Oak, Oklahoma
34°58′38.91″N 95°2′54.04″W / 34.9774750°N 95.0483444°W / 34.9774750; -95.0483444
72001070
Butterfield Overland Mail
Indian Territory
Latimer County, Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places
Red Oak, Oklahoma


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Holloway's Station"
National Park Service
accompanying photo from 1972
ISBN
0-8061-2028-2
"The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago"
Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory
Riddle's Station
Trahern's Station
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