Nuyaka
35°39′15″N 96°08′24″W / 35.654158°N 96.139862°W Nuyaka is a populated place in
According to one source, the name Nuyaka is from the Creek pronunciation for New York, which was the site of a meeting between President George Washington and 26 Creek chiefs. The meeting was to discuss a treaty and to obtain a cession of Creek land to the U, S. Government. Reportedly, the Creeks were so impressed with New York City that they named one of their towns in present-day Alabama on the Tallapoosa River for it.[4] The town was abandoned during the Creek War in the fall of 1813 and destroyed by Major General David Adams in December 1813. That site was never rebuilt and is now within the boundary of the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. [5] White men wrote the town name as Nuyaka.[6]
After the
The town was the terminus in 1921 of the Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway, which originated in Bristow and ran through Slick.[7][8] The town's estimated oilboom population of 600 in 1922 was enough to support daily passenger rail service to Slick and points beyond.[8] However, by 1929, the population was down to about 50, and train service was limited to three times a week.[8] The line was abandoned altogether in 1930.[7]
References
- ^ "Old Nuyaka Cemetery to Nuyaka, Oklahoma". Google Maps. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
- ^ "Nuyaka Mission". LandmarkHunter. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
- ^ OK HomeTownLocator, Nuyaka Populated Place Profile. Retrieved April 28, 2013.[1]
- ^ Piker, Joshua Aaron. Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. Available on Google Books. p. 198. Retrieved June 27, 2013.[2]
- ^ "The Creek War and the War of 1812:Nuyaka."
- ^ a b Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State. (1941) University of Oklahoma. Available on line from Google Books. [3]
- ^ a b "Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway Company (Abandoned)". Railroads of Oklahoma, June 6, 1870-April 1, 1978, pp. 13, 27 & 60. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Abandonment of Line by Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway Company, decided December 21, 1929". Interstate Commerce Commission. September 19, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2022.