Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing

Historical marker location:

Stigler, Oklahoma

( Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 9 and Tamaha Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 9.)

Marker installed: 1995

Tamaha was an important port and ferry crossing on the Arkansas River in the 1830s. Steamboats brought Choctaw Indians from the Mississippi River up the Arkansas to Tamaha in 1831. The post office opened in 1884 and a jail was built at Tamaha in 1886. The last steamboat touched at Tamaha Landing in 1912.