Gallery 2
Date: Around 1889
Location: Armstrong Academy Black Smith
Virgil Varner : The Black Smith shoeing a house in the barn at the Armstrong Academy , late 1800's .Joseph Evans : great grand father of Virgil over seeing progress. Photo provided by Shirley Kelly great, great, great grad daughter of Oklahoma City
Dates: present day
Location: Highway 70 Bokchito Ok
Historic marker Chahata Tamaha -
(Choctaw Tawn) found along Highway 70 on the east end of town.
Dates: Around 1900
Location: The Academy
Armstrong Academy for boy's c. 1900
Studentsand visiting families.Photo by
W.W. Clinkscales, Caddo, IT
( Archives & Manuscripts Division of the
Oklahoma Historical Society )
Dates: 1850 to 1920
Location: Choctaw Nation IT/OT
The Armstrong Academy had second US Post Office in IndianTerritory by the same name from November 19th, 1850 to August 27th, 1869. Another post office know as the Armstrong Post Office was opened from April 26th, 1882 to October 30th, 1883. A third Post Office was opened on the sight from April 22nd, 1898 to March 15th, 1920, called the Academy Post Office.
Ref: Oklahoma Place Names by
George H. Shirk
Dates: 1974
Location: UNIVERITY of OKLAHOMA PRESS, Norman Ok, published 1978
Academy 1974 . Step and traces of the sidewalks leading to where the main building stood. remains of the old cistern across the stream from the school building site ( Courtesy Bryan County Star )
Dates: Sunday March 22 ,1936
Location: Oklahoma City ,OK
Daily Oklahoman Paper with the story on the Armstrong Academy and its history