The public meeting brought together a diverse crowd from across the region in a local community space, including planning documents might move slowly, local excitement for the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail is moving full speed ahead.
A packed room in Stringtown on Thursday proved that while government residents and history enthusiasts from Stringtown, Atoka, Boggy Depot, Durant, Caddo, McAlester, and even Paris, Texas. Representatives from the Choctaw Nation, the Atoka Museum and Civil War Cemetery, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, the Stringtown Legacy Foundation, and local educators filled the room, alongside Mrs. Loyless and her Stringtown freshman Oklahoma History class.
The meeting featured updates from Jill Jensen, lead planner with the National Park Service National Trails Office in Santa Fe; Brian Deaton, GIS coordinator for the NPS Intermountain Region; and Susan Dragoo, president of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Butterfield National Historic Trail Association and author of Finding the Butterfield.
