Towns & Links
Towns & Links
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| History | Churches | Oologah Lake Leader Online | Oologah Chamber of Commerce |
Chelsea
| Chelsea | City Information | Chelsea Chamber of Commerce | |
FOYIL
| Schools | Foyil | City Information | Worlds Largest Totem Pole |
INOLA
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| Schools | Churches | City Information | Arkansas River Historical Society |
TALALA
| Talala | City Information |
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This table includes a link to every map on which each town could be located. If an entry in the Township Map column shows a link to only the Township & Range, then that town does not actually appear on the current map but was found out which township and sometimes which section it was in from other sources. Information was obtained by Sharon McAllister.
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Catale - pronounced "Cat-a-lee" -- is a corruption of the Cherokee word "Cat-al-la-yah" meaning a valley. Catalayah avenue in Claremore comes from the same source and has the same meaning. Very appropriate in each case.- From the History of Rogers County
Catoosa - "Ka-to-see", "Gha-too-see" or "Kah-to-see" being the only word which the Cherokee Indian has to convey the idea of "a hill". Ca-to-sa then means a hill. It has been said an official of the Frisco, asked a full-blood named Dick Duck, "What is the name of that hill?" Mr. Duck replied in his broken English, "Injun 'im Ka-too-sie".- From the History of Rogers County
Claremore was formed September 19, 1882, after the Frisco Railroad came through.- From the History of Rogers County
Inola - The word is "E-no-lah", a Cherokee word meaning Black Fox, that being a common name among members of the Cherokee tribe. A long time ago, a Cherokee named Black Fox, or E-no-lah in the native language, wandered away from his home on Spring Creek and established a camp near a spring about half way to the top of a commanding prairie hill in the Creek nation. This hill was thereafter characterized as "E-no-lah's hill" -- and later merely E-no-lah hill for that reason and when the Missouri-Pacific railroad was built the General Attorney requested William P. Ross, a scholarly Cherokee statesman, to suggest appropriate names for the various stations. The one near this hill he named "I-no-la" ("I" sounded like "E"). He suggested the names of Oologah and Talala also.- From the History of Rogers County
Oolagah - When the Cherokee came west they had a band of warriors under the command of a short, heavy set fellow whom they called "Tah-chee", meaning Dutch. This band defeated the Osages at Claremore mound and drove them out of the country. One of Tahchee's warriors was named -- in his native language -- "oo-lo-gah". That is where the town of Oo-lo-gah got its name.- From the History of Rogers County
Oowala - "Oo-wa-la" is the Cherokee name for a food prepared from the livers and lights (lungs) of a hog with other ingredients, principally pepper, and then conferred upon a white man named Lipe. When told that the white man's name was "Lipe" an old Indian thinking they said "lights" associated it with his favorite dish and said "Oo-wa-la" when spoken in the native language. - From the History of Rogers County
Sageeyah - "Sa-gee-yah" is named in honor of Sageeyah (or Soggy) Sanders a well known Cherokee Senator form the Saline District.- From the History of Rogers County
Sequoyah - named in honor of "Se-quo-yah" the man who invented the Cherokee alphabet and reduced the language to writing.- From the History of Rogers County
Talala - "Ta-la-la"
is the Cherokee word for woodpecker. Long ago, an Indian associated
the tapping of the woodpecker with the syllables ta-la-la. The woodpecker
is a red-headed bird and young girls child with red hair were often called
by their full-blood relatives "Ta-la-la". A small stream in the north part
of Rogers County was found by early day Indians to be a favorite place of
the woodpeckers so they called it Ta-la-la creek. The town Talala derived
its name from this creek.
- From the History of Rogers County
This page was last updated on
12/10/12
