Earlsboro, Oklahoma

Earlsboro, United States

Earlsboro, Oklahoma shares 7 connections with 66 other places across 3 topics, spanning art, transportation, and military history. The town itself took shape in 1891 when the Choctaw Coal and Railway extended a line west from the Seminole Nation, and its name traces to James Earls, an African American who served as an orderly for Confederate General Joseph Wheeler during the Civil War. Artist Enoch Kelly Haney, who graduated from Prairie Valley High School in Earlsboro in 1959, links the town to the broader art network.