Chief Pushmataha

Historical marker location:

6290 U.S. Highway 69, Porter, Oklahoma

( Marker is on U.S. 69, 0.4 miles north of 820th Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

Chief Pushmataha led a Mississippi Choctaw hunting expedition to the area in January of 1807 and attacked armed men under the leadership of French trader Joseph Bogy. Pushmataha County, in southeastern Oklahoma, is named for this great Choctaw leader.

The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935. The parking meter was invented by Carl C. Magee, a journalist and entrepreneur, who wanted to solve the problem of cars taking up too much space on the city's streets.