Editing Shady Point, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
A post office was established at Harrison, Indian Territory on September 17, 1891.  It was named for William H. Harrison, an attorney and Choctaw leader.  On December 11, 1894, its name was changed to Shady Point, Indian Territory.<ref>Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1965), pp. 98 & 190.</ref>  At the time of its founding the community was located in [[Sugar Loaf County, Choctaw Nation|Sugar Loaf County]], a part of the [[Moshulatubbee District]] of the [[Choctaw Nation]].<ref>Morris, John W. ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.</ref>

In 1894, the settlement moved eastward to the proposed route of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, which built a track through Indian Territory in 1895–96. In 1900, the Kansas City Southern Railway bought out the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad. The population was estimated at 200 In 1901. In the same year, the [[Poteau Valley Railroad]] built tracks from Shady Point to the mines at Sutter (which was renamed Calhoun in 1914), bringing prosperity to Shady Point as a coal shipping point.<ref name="EOHC-ShadyPoint">{{cite web|url= https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SH003 |title=Shady Point|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|accessdate=October 8, 2022}}</ref>

Agriculture became the basis for Shady Point's economy during the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]]. The Evans Coal Company closed its deep-shaft coal mine in 1980, the same year the town incorporated. The population then was 235. Applied Energy Services built a power plant in 1991 that burned half of the coal produced in Oklahoma by the end of the twentieth century.<ref name="EOHC-ShadyPoint"/>