Editing Rentiesville, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The Civil War [[Battle of Honey Springs]] was fought about a half mile east of present-day Rentiesville and south of [[Oktaha, Oklahoma|Oktaha]], near the county line;<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=335&articleid=20111105_16_A15_WASHIN479818| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111106022622/http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=335&articleid=20111105_16_A15_WASHIN479818| archive-date = November 6, 2011| title = Honey Springs, Blue River suddenly on federal radar {{!}} Tulsa World}}</ref> the [[Honey Springs Battlefield]] is on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Muskogee County, Oklahoma]].  Honey Springs was Oklahoma's largest Civil War [[Engagement (military)|engagement]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HO025.html |title=Honey Springs, Battle of |accessdate=October 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018203118/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HO025.html |archivedate=October 18, 2010 }}</ref>

Rentiesville was founded as an all-black town in 1903 on land owned by William Rentie and Phoebe McIntosh. The post office opened May 11, 1904, and the town became a flag stop on the [[Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad]]. William Rentie was the town's only lawman until 1908, when he was shot and killed by a man he had arrested for being drunk and disorderly.<ref name=EOHC-Rentiesville/>

In 1990, the population was 69.<ref>[http://cast.uark.edu/assets/files/PDF/HSMR2.pdf "Honey Springs Battlefield Park - 1997 Master Plan Report."] Hama, Karen and R. Brian Culpepper. Prepared by: The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 1997. Retrieved August 26, 2014.</ref>