Chisholm Spring was a small trading post in
Oklahoma Territory
The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as ...
, two miles east of present-day
Asher, Oklahoma
Asher is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. The population was 393 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, a decline of 6.2 percent from the figure of 419 in 2000.
Geography
Asher is located at the int ...
. The post was established by frontier cattleman
Jesse Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm ( 1805 – March 4, 1868) was a Scotch-Cherokee fur trader and merchant in the American West. Chisholm is known for having scouted and developed what became known as the Chisholm Trail, later used to drive cattle from Texas to ra ...
(for whom the famous
Chisholm Trail
The Chisholm Trail ( ) was a stock trail and wagon route used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, across the Red River into Indian Territory, and northward to rail stops in Kansas. The trail cons ...
was named ) in 1847. The settlement attracted many plains Indians, but efforts to create a town were aborted when Chisholm moved to Kansas in 1862.
See also
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List of ghost towns in Oklahoma
The U.S. state of Oklahoma has an estimated two thousand ghost towns. These towns began for a number of reasons, often as liquor towns, boomtowns, or mining towns, with some pre-dating statehood. The population and activity later declined in ...
References
Buildings and structures in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
1847 establishments in Indian Territory
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