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^Ptry.' .f$t?Iarg6r afcd among bayew of5* aniiiiit\ bf^ybvenue derived rtithis joarco through, tbp: h^0nj i^.^fShoi^l^t jf# M^g ^aifiB lD^puty Mr. Taylor must be^odhsignlflcant |Um. Thc^xy letisi6h £roEi Vinlta of the Atlhntib attij1 SiijWy^lg only abouta mile apd a balf vvest of the Court House; f ?nio nearest statibn i« Claremore about five miles beyond. A passenger train runs daily to this point, and will in a few days more pass on to Tuisy near (be Arkansas River, as the track is nearly all laid at this timo. Tho stations between Claremore and Tulsy are Catoosa, two miles west of tho Verdigris Bridge, and Mingo, on the stream of fhat name, and which is a Southern tributary of Bird Creek.Claremore, a corruption of Clc-wont or Clairmont, by an ignorant Bohool teacheiy who was the first Post njaBter, at the Post office in the yicinity, which bears the name, is so called from a conspicuous oblong Mound near the Verdigris known as Clermonts Mound. Clermont was a noted Chief among the great Osages, who formerly occupied this region, of country*. The Mound is said to have boon tho seat of a severe battle between tho Osages and Cherokees at an early day, and which was disastrous to the former. Near it was also the seat of an Osage village, and the remains of skeletons were quite numerous about the Mound a few years since. The Railway station of Claremore is five miles South of
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Cherokee Advocate
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1882
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Treva H.
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