1. Adamson (Pittsburg County)
Starting as a coal camp, Adamson became a town in the early 1900s.
By World War 1, the area had 15 coal mines shipping trainloads every day on two rail lines. More than 5,500 people from all over the world, 700 of them in Adamson, lived and worked in a foursquare-mile area. The mines operated 24 hours a day. Traditional holiday celebrations of a dozen different European nationalities helped enliven the activities as money flowed freely. On September 4, 1914, one of Oklahoma's worst mining disasters occurred just a quarter-mile from the business district, trapping 14 men hundreds of feet underground. The bodies were never recovered. Today all the mines are closed and filled with water. They continue to cave in, and the area has a series of ponds on the surface. A monument to the lost miners stands at the site. Located east of McAlester via Hartshorne. 

2. Big Cedar (LeFlore County)
Big Cedar occupies one of the most picturesque sites in Oklahomain the Kiamichi River valley between Kiamichi Mountain and Winding Stair Mountain. Its population of 50 peaked about 1910. By that time the nearby cedars had all been cut by the sawmill, and the white oaks of the area were used for barrel staves in the 1930s. In 1961 the last section of the international highway from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Monterrey, Mexico, designated US-59/259, was completed through the mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, and President John F. Kennedy spoke at the dedication. Big Cedar had 20,000 Visitors and appeared on national television. Today the mcu':-ent to that dedication marks the site at the intersection of US~259 and SH-63.

3. Boggy Depot (Atoka County)

The first Chickasaw settlers in Boggy Depot built on high ground between Sandy Creek and the Clear Boggy River in 1837. Eventually the site became the annuity grounds for the Chickasaws, where they gathered when rations were delivered by the federal government. Major travel routes from Fort Smith and northern points crossed here, stimulating growth as travelers went through to Texas and California. Called at times Old Boggy Depot, the Depot on the Boggy, and the Chickasaw Depot, the town included large numbers of Choctaws as well. In 1850 a mail route was extended from Fort Smith, and Boggy Depot became a principal stage station on the Butterfield Overland Mail line. During the Civil War the town was the headquarters for Texas and Indian Confederate soldiers, but only one failed attack was made against the installation. After the war Boggy Depot continued to grow when a toll bridge was built across the Clear Boggy River, but it began to decline after a survey revealed that it was located in the Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaws began moving west. Then the M-K-T Railroad passed 12 miles away, the stage road shifted to a better river crossing, and the post office was moved to New Boggy Depot in 1883. The site is now part of Boggy Depot State Park, located west of Atoka.