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History · Millerton

Millerton’s post office opened in 1908, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Millerton was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. 2 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Wheelock Academy, a National Historic Landmark, and a historic district with 4 buildings. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1980.

1908first post office
2on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
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How Millerton began

When was Millerton founded?

1908

The Millerton post office opened in 1908, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 262 in 19802020 census: 215118 years
Founding year: the first Millerton post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Millerton’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Millerton are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 359 in 2000; 215 people lived here in 2020.A National Historic Landmark2 places on the National Register, including Wheelock Academy, a National Historic Landmark.
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Start Millerton’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Millerton’s history is told.

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People over time

Millerton, census by census

0100200300400198020002020Peak: 359

Peaked at 359 in 2000; 215 people lived here in 2020.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Millerton’s Wikipedia page.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Millerton

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmark
1
Wheelock Academy
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1966
Wheelock Academy
BuildingsDistricts★ landmark
All 2 listings
Wheelock AcademyDistrict · listed 1966Wheelock ChurchBuilding · listed 1972

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story so far

Millerton, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Millerton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Millerton is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 215 at the 2020 census, down from 320 in 2010. The oldest church building in Oklahoma, Wheelock Church, is located near Millerton.

Its first post office opened in 1908. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 320 to 215 (-33%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Millerton in 1914

Passages that mention Millerton, cut from the printed page as they were published.

Forest Chapel, as is suggested by its name, was located in the large and dense oak forest along Red river eight miles south of Wheelock. Its post office has been successively, Wheelock, Fowlerville, Parsons and since 1906 Millerton. The Forest church was organized by Parson Stewart about 1886, and …
The Choctaw freedmen and the story of Oak Hill industrial academy, Valliant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, now called the Alice Lee Elliott memorial1914 · page 124Read the page →
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Forest Chapel, as is suggested by its name, was located in the large and dense oak forest along Red river eight miles south of Wheelock. Its post office has been successively, Wheelock, Fowlerville, Parsons and since 1906 Millerton. The Forest church was organized by Parson Stewart about 1886, and was served by him once a month the next seven years. In 1898 it became a remote part of the field of Rev. William Butler of Eagletown, who also endeavored to

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Millerton, 1832 to 2000

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1832BuiltWheelock Academy is built
  3. 20th century
  4. 1908Post officeThe Millerton post office opens
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1965LandmarkWheelock Academy named a National Historic Landmark
  7. 21st century
  8. 2000CensusPopulation peaks at 359
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Millerton on the map, 1951 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Millerton. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Millerton on the 1951 USGS mapMillerton on the 1985 USGS map1951Millerton sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Millerton.

Famous people

Famous people close to Millerton

Nobody well known was born in Millerton itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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B. J. ThomasAmerican singer · b. 1942
Tommie SmithAmerican track and field athlete · b. 1944
John Edward WilliamsAmerican writer · b. 1922
Bill MoyersAmerican journalist · b. 1934
Sunny MurrayAmerican jazz drummer · b. 1936
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Countess VaughnActress, singer · b. 1978

Questions about Millerton’s history

What year was Millerton founded?

The Millerton post office opened in 1908, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Millerton?

Two places: the Wheelock Academy (listed 1966) and the Wheelock Church (1972).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.