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Eufaula is a city in and county seat of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2,639 in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Eufaula is in the southern part of the county, north of McAlester and south of Muskogee.〔(John C. Harkey and Mary C. Harkey, "Eufaula," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. ) Accessed March 10, 2015.〕 The name "Eufaula" comes from the Eufaula tribe, part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. The town and county are within the jurisdiction of the federally recognized Muscogee Creek Nation, descendants of people who removed here from the American Southeast in the 1830s. ==History== By 1800, the Creek had a village named Eufala, located on Eufaula Creek, near the present site of Talladega, Alabama. It was one of a group called their Upper Creek towns. Pickett's ''History of Alabama'' mentions an Indian town, belonging to the Creeks, which he calls ''Eufaulahatche.'' Little Eufauly is mentioned by one of the historians as early as 1792. Another Upper Creek town called Eufaula was located on the Tallapoosa River; the present town of Dadeville, Alabama developed near there. The Lower Creek also had a village named Eufala, located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, within the limits of the present County of Quitman in Georgia. Another Lower Creek town called Eufaula was located on the Chattahoochee River, in what later became Henry County, Alabama. Eufaula, Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), began to develop as a European-American town soon after the arrival of the (Katy) in 1872. Since 1832, after the U. S. Government had forced the Creeks to move to Indian Territory from their previous home in the Southeastern United States, Eufaula had been a well-known center of the Creek and frequent meeting place. They held pow-wows or Indian conferences in that vicinity during the early days of Creek settlement. G. W. Grayson, then Chief of the Creeks, his brother Samuel, George Stidham and others, persuaded the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway was to locate one of its stations at this site. The older Creek village was moved here to take advantage of the railroad. The town received its current name after George W. Ingall, Indian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, suggested the name Eufaula, after the earlier Muscogee tribal town in Alabama. Eufaula incorporated as a town in Indian Territory by 1898.〔 D. B. Whitlow and Joseph Coody established the first store on the west side of the railroad, and the Graysons and G. E. Seales started a store on the east side about the same time. Dr. W. H. Bailey was the first physician and druggist to locate in the new town. Rev. R. C. McGee, a Presbyterian missionary, established one of the first churches in Eufaula. He served there as minister for many years. For many years before the American Civil War, the Asbury Mission School, located two miles northeast of Eufaula was the leading educational institution of that vicinity. It was burned in an accidental fire. Between 1907 and 1909, the people of Eufaula were involved in a dispute with nearby Checotah known as the McIntosh County Seat War. After Checotah was designated as the new county seat, the people of Eufaula refused to hand over the county records. Soon after, a group of heavily armed men from Chectotah attempted to seize the records from the courthouse in Eufaula, but were beaten back and forced to surrender during the gunfight that followed. Eufaula was designated as the permanent seat of McIntosh County one year later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eufaula, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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