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In 1820, the U.S. government granted the land now known as Johnston County to the Choctaw tribe. Many of the Choctaws began moving to the new land in Indian Territory in 1830. The rest followed the Chickasaw tribe. The Chickasaw were closely related to the Choctaw, being formally separated from the Choctaw Nation in the late 1830s and relocated to the western part of the Choctaw Nation. The Chickasaw Nation named the town of Tishomingo as its capital and built a brick capitol building there in 1856.
Several educational institutions were established in the Chickasaw Nation before the Civil War. The Pleasant Grove Mission School and the Chickasaw Academy were founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. The Presbyterians, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, opened the Wapanucka Female Manual Labour School in 1852.
The Chickasaw government joined the Confederate States of America after the outbreak of the Civil War. The Union army ordered its troops to evacuate Fort Washita, Fort Cobb and Fort Arbuckle. When Confederate troops occupied the area, they used the stone building at Wapanucka as a hospital and a prison.
The county was established at statehood on November 16, 1907 and named for Douglas H. Johnston, a governor of the Chickasaw Nation.
Adjacent Counties
Cities, Towns & Communities
- Bee
- Bromide
- Bromide Junction
- Coleman
- Connerville
- Earl
- Emet
- Fillmore
- Folsom
- Mannsville
- Milburn
- Mill Creek
- Nida
- Pontotoc
- Ravia
- Reagan
- Russett
- Tishomingo (County Seat)
- Troy
- Wapanucka
Links
Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge (part)
Johnston County Historical Society
