Editing Lindsay, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
[[Image:Lindsay-murray_mansion.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The Lindsay-Murray Mansion]]
Lindsay was founded in January 1902, when the [[Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway]] (an affiliate of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe]]) and the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad]] companies were linking their lines halfway between [[Chickasha, Oklahoma|Chickasha]] and [[Pauls Valley, Oklahoma|Pauls Valley]], a project completed in 1903.<ref name=Railroads>{{cite book |title= Railroads of Oklahoma, June 6, 1870 to April 1, 1978|publisher= State of Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Survey Division | date=April 1, 1978|pages=29–39}}</ref><ref name=Railroads2>{{cite book |title= Railroads of Oklahoma, June 6, 1870 to April 1, 1978|publisher= State of Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Survey Division | date=April 1, 1978|pages=43}}</ref>  The AT&SF trains from Pauls Valley turned around at Lindsay, and the Rock Island trains from Chickasha did the same.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://okgenweb.net/~okgarvin/miketower/whobuilttherailroads.html |title=  Who built the railroads|publisher=Mike Tower, OKGenWeb|accessdate=June 6, 2022}}</ref>

Lindsay was named after Lewis Lindsay, a local area farmer who donated {{convert|440|acre}} of land for the townsite.<ref name="lindsayhistory">{{cite web |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LI007.html |title=Oklahoma Encyclopedia of History and Culture - Lindsay |accessdate=2011-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103181852/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LI007.html |archive-date=2012-11-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  At the time of its founding, Lindsay was located in [[Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation]].<ref>Charles Goins, ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), plate 105.</ref>