Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Eagletown, OK

Eagletown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, located on the Mountain Fork River about six miles west of the Arkansas border along U.S. Highway 70.

Eagletown was the first permanent Choctaw settlement in Indian Territory, founded by Choctaw emigrants arriving over the Trail of Tears; the Choctaw called it Ossi Tamaha, meaning "Eagle Town."

The Army established a treaty ration point at Eagletown, where an estimated 852 Choctaw were receiving rations in April 1832, and by 1834 an estimated fifteen hundred Choctaw lived in the vicinity.

Missionary Loring S. Williams arrived in 1832 and established the Bethabara station, organizing the first church in Choctaw country in 1834 and a post office the same year.

Missionary Cyrus Byington spent 31 years at Eagletown creating a written Choctaw language and producing his Dictionary of the Choctaw Language, and he supervised the Iyanubbi Female Seminary, a boarding school for Choctaw girls that operated from 1844 to 1861.

A giant cypress at the river crossing near Eagletown was called "the oldest tree in Oklahoma" and was said to be more than 2,000 years old before a lightning strike killed it in 1982.

Eagletown became a trading center on the Military Trace, the wagon road through Choctaw country connecting Fort Towson with forts in Arkansas.

Under the Choctaw constitution of 1850, Eagletown became the court ground, or county seat, of the Choctaw Nation's Eagle County, a role it kept until 1906, on the eve of Oklahoma statehood.

The name was officially "Eagle Town" from 1850 until December 16, 1892, when it was changed to the present Eagletown.

Three Choctaw principal chiefs lived in or near Eagletown, and the Gardner Mansion, built in 1884 by principal chief Jefferson Gardner about three miles west of town, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.