Atoka County, Oklahoma
Schools
In
1887the Atoka Baptist church
successfully
inaugurated the
Atoka
Baptist
Academy.
This splendid
school was conducted
under the auspices of the
American Baptist
Home Mission
Society for eighteen
years.
See page about the Academy and the Orphange it
became.
The Atoka Baptist Academy will
close with
appropriate exercises on May 25th. A program has been planned for the
afternoon and another for the night. Orphans who have had
the Academy for their
home, will be at liberty to go to
their friends on Friday May 25th. E. H.
Rishel,
Principal
Source: The Indian Citizen May 11, 1899
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