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According to archaeological studies, this area was inhabited by Caddoan Mound Builders during 300 to 1200 AD.
The western area of Wagoner County was settled by the Creek after their forced removal in Alabama in the 1820s. The eastern portion of the county was settled by the Cherokee.
During the Civil War in 1865, the present county was the scene of the Battle of Flat Rock (also known as the Hay Camp Action). Confederate troops led by Brig. General Stand Watie and Brig. General Richard Gano captured 85 Union troops and killed even more who were harvesting hay.
In 1905, the Sequoyah Convention proposed creating two counties from this area. The western half would be named Coweta and the eastern half would have been named Tumechichee. However, failure of the attempt to create the state of Sequoyah negated the proposal. In 1907 at Oklahoma statehood, Wagoner County was organized. The towns of Porter and Coweta vied with Wagoner as the county seat. The county was named after the town of Wagoner, which won the election. The town was named after Henry "Bigfoot" Wagoner, a Katy Railroad dispatcher from Parsons, Kansas.
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Bixby | Broken Arrow | Catoosa | Choska | Clarksville | Coweta | Fair Oaks | Gibson | Mallard Bay | Neodesha | New Tulsa | Oneta | Porter | Redbird | Rocky Point | Stones Corner | Taylor Ferry | Toppers | Tullahassee | Tulsa (part) | Wagoner (County Seat) | Whitehorn Cove
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