Editing New Woodville, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The original town of Woodville was established as Harney, with its post office opening November 8, 1881.<ref name=OHS>{{cite web|url= https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WO015 |title=Woodville|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|accessdate=July 14, 2024}}</ref>  It was renamed Woodville on July 9, 1888 in honor of local settler L.L. Wood.<ref name=OHS/>  Construction of a [[St. Louis and San Francisco Railway]] affiliate through the area in 1900 stimulated growth, with the town having 3 newspapers, a grain elevator, and cotton gins, resulting in a community with a school and nine brick buildings.<ref name=OHS/>  It was incorporated as a town between 1900 and 1907.<ref name=OHS/>
That original Woodville, having approximately 300 residents, was dissolved around 1943 or 1944 when the area was flooded due to the [[Red River of the South|Red River]] being dammed by [[Denison Dam]] to create Lake Texoma.<ref name=News>{{cite news
|url=http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/20/3276702/depleted-texas-lakes-expose-ghost.html
|title=Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves
|author=Michael Graczyk and Angela K. Brown
|date=November 20, 2011
|work=Kansas City Star
|access-date=November 20, 2011}}</ref><ref name=Case>{{cite web|url= https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/woodville-v-united-states-895570221 |title=Woodville, Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, 152 F.2nd 735 (Tenth Circuit, 1946)|publisher=v/lex|accessdate=July 14, 2024}}</ref>  The town of New Woodville was incorporated, with around 50 of the former Woodville residents moving to the new location about two miles north of the original townsite.<ref name=News/><ref name=Case/>  New Woodville disincorporated for brief periods in the late 90s or the early 2000s, but has legally existed since 2002 although the town government has been inactive.<ref name=OHS/>

The drought of 2013 reduced the level of Lake Texoma sufficiently to expose some of old Woodville's foundations and storm cellars.<ref>[http://www.kten.com/story/15941394/2011/11/02/secrets-of-the-lake-old-woodville KTEN. Hair, Kris. "Secrets of the Lake: Old Woodville." November 2, 2011.] Retrieved September 10, 2013.</ref>