Editing Maud, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
This community was established by 1890 on the dividing line between [[Oklahoma Territory]] and [[Indian Territory]]. In 1890, a barbed-wire fence was built along the street now called Broadway from the [[North Canadian River]] to the [[Canadian River]] to keep the Native Americans out of Oklahoma Territory. However, the fence failed to prevent the illegal sale of alcohol to residents of Indian Territory.<ref name="EOHC-Maud"/>

A post office was established on April 16, 1896.

In January 1898, a mob lynched two [[Seminole]] teenagers, [[Seminole burning|Lincoln McGeisey and Palmer Sampson]], by burning them alive near this same post office, in retaliation for their alleged murder of a white woman.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Violence|last = Littlefield|first = Daniel F.|publisher = University of Mississippi Press|year = 1996|location = Jackson}}</ref> Newspapers reported that the charred bodies remained chained to an oak tree for several days after the mob murdered them.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Chains Hold Human Bones Against Post|date = 10 January 1898|journal = The Atlanta Constitution}}</ref> Unlike in most lynchings, some members of the mob were actually convicted of participating in the violence. When one of these men was released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth in 1906, a celebratory crowd welcomed him home to Maud.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Seminole Burning|last = Littlefield|first = Daniel|publisher = University of Mississippi Press|year = 1996|location = Jackson|pages = 3–4}}</ref>

A railroad station was built by the [[Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway]] in 1903.<ref name="EOHC-Maud" /> The first newspaper, the Maud Monitor, appeared in 1904, and lasted until about 1919.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97070381/ |title=About The Maud monitor|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref> The city was formally incorporated on July 21, 1905.<ref name="EOHC-Maud" /> The 1910 census showed a population of 503.<ref name="EOHC-Maud" />

Maud became a boom town in the early 1920s because oil was discovered nearby. The peak population was estimated at ten thousand. The boom was short-lived and the population was only 4,326 at the 1930 census.<ref name="EOHC-Maud"/>