Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Stringtown Stringtown, OK

Stringtown is a town in Atoka County in southeastern Oklahoma, and despite its small size it is the second-largest town in the county, behind only Atoka.

Stringtown's post office was established on August 17, 1874, back when the community lay in Atoka County of the Choctaw Nation.

The town was originally named Springtown for the natural springs flowing from the hills it is built on, and the present name is believed to be a corruption of that original name.

The 2020 census counted 419 people in Stringtown, up slightly from 410 in 2010 and 396 in 2000; the town covers about 4.7 square miles.

Just outside Stringtown stands the Mack H. Alford Correctional Center, a medium-security state prison and one of Atoka County's largest employers, which opened in 1933 as an annex of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

During World War II the Stringtown prison site served as an internment camp holding German internees and prisoners of war, and possibly Japanese American detainees as well.

On August 5, 1932, while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother in Stringtown, Clyde Barrow and two companions were confronted by lawmen at a local dance, and Clyde shot and killed Deputy Eugene C. Moore.

In January 2014 the Oklahoma Highway Patrol disbanded the Stringtown Police Department for funding the town too heavily through traffic tickets, in violation of the state's 'speed trap' law.

Stringtown's Garside House, built on land allotted to Joseph and Sarah Garside in 1902, is one of the town's recognized historic sites, alongside a Bonnie and Clyde monument.