Editing Murray County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The area now occupied by Murray County was part of the land granted to the [[Choctaw Nation]] by the [[Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek]] in 1820. The Chickasaw received part of the land under the [[Treaty of Doaksville]] in 1838. The area became part of the [[Chickasaw Nation]] in 1855. There was an extended conflict before the U.S. Civil War between the Plains Indians and the newly arrived Choctaws and Chickasaws. The U.S. Army built Fort Towson (1824); Fort Washita (1842) and Fort Arbuckle (1851) to protect the Chickasaws. After the conflict between the tribes was settled, various bands of outlaws moved in and continued to create law enforcement problems.<ref name="EOHC-MurrayCo"/>

Sulphur began developing in the 1880s around the springs for which it was named. The springs encouraged the building of bathhouses and spas. Several were established by the time that a post office was established in 1898. The Sulphur Springs Railway (acquired by the [[St. Louis and San Francisco Railway]] in 1907) arrived there in 1902, and the 1904 establishment of [[Platt National Park]], with headquarters at Sulphur, spurred the expansion of services for health-seekers. Other visitors were drawn to the park and to nearby Turner Falls, making Sulphur one of the state's earliest recreational centers.<ref name="EOHC-MurrayCo"/>

Until statehood, the area of the present-day county was a part of [[Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation]].<ref>Charles Goins, ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), plate 105.</ref>  Murray County was created when the Chickasaw Nation was disestablished immediately before Oklahoma statehood. Sulphur was declared as the county seat.