McAlester, Oklahoma

Alyssia Young, who emigrated from Mississippi to the Indian Territory, first established a settlement at the intersection of the two roads in 1838.

McAlester married Rebecca Burney (1841–1919).

On August 26, 1863, a force of 4,500 Union soldiers crossed the Canadian River and destroyed the Confederate munitions depot at Perryville.

After the end of the Civil War in 1865, Captain J.

He constructed a trading post/general store there in late 1869.

Morton and Parsons selected a site near the Kansas Indian Territory border where they incorporated the settlement of Parsons, Kansas in 1871.

The line reached Bucklucksy in 1872, and Katy Railroad officials named the railway stop McAlester (Nesbitt 1933, pp.

Miners of Italian origin arrived in McAlester in 1874.

In 1885, Fritz Sittle (Sittel), a Choctaw citizen by marriage and one of the first settlers in the area, urged visiting newspaperman Edwin D.

Chadick eventually found financing and established the Choctaw Coal and Railway in 1888, but was unable to come to terms with J.

McAlester was linked to Krebs, Alderson, Bache, Haileyville, and Hartshorne by the Pittsburg County Railway interurban from 1903 to 1946.

The two towns operated as somewhat separate communities until 1907, when the United States Congress passed an act joining them as a single municipality, the action being require...

McAlester was also on the route of the Jefferson Highway established in 1915, with that road running more than 2,300 miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba to New Orleans, Louisiana.

2, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society (published June 1933), pp.

Derek Sitter, founder/former owner, Volcanic Theatre Pub (Bend, Oregon) and actor/filmmaker Gene Stipe, longest-serving member of the Oklahoma Senate, represented McAlester (195...

The McAlester Public Library was built in 1970.

In 1977, the facility became the U.S.

In 1998 McAlester became the home of the Defense Ammunition Center (DAC), which moved from Savanna, Illinois, to McAlester Army Ammunition Plant.

=== 2000 census === As of the 2000 census, there were 17,783 people, 6,584 households, and 4,187 families residing in the city.

McAlester was the site of the 2004 trial of Terry Nichols on Oklahoma state charges related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

McAlester Chamber of Commerce (September 1, 2007), Living In McAlester: Location/ Transportation, retrieved September 1, 2007 Dunbar, Trevor (January 14, 2007).

758–64, ISSN 0009-6024, OCLC 1554537, archived from the original on July 6, 2008, retrieved August 16, 2007.

As of 2010 the city has plans to build a new library.

Archived from the original on January 29, 2013.