Editing Marshall County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The area covered by Marshall County was part of the territory set aside by the U.S. government for resettlement of the Choctaw tribe and the closely related Chickasaw tribe from their lands in the southeastern United States. The Chickasaws began relocating to this area in 1837. The U.S. Army built [[Fort Washita]] in 1842 to protect the new arrivals from raids by other tribes. In 1857, the [[Chickasaw Nation]] formally separated from the [[Choctaw Nation]]. This area became part of [[Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation|Pickens County]]<ref>Charles Goins, ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), plate 105.</ref> in the Chickasaw Nation.<ref name="EOHC-MarshallCo"/>

Railroads came to the present-day Marshall County in 1901, when St. Louis, Oklahoma, and Southern Railway (acquired shortly after by the [[St. Louis and San Francisco Railway]]), known as the "Frisco," constructed a north-south line. The following year, the [[St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad]] (formerly the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway) laid tracks from east to west through the area. This line was sold to the Frisco in 1907. The State of Oklahoma relocated part of this line in 1941 to make way for the creation of [[Lake Texoma]].<ref name="EOHC-MarshallCo"/>