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3 unusual facts about Kiamichi River


Kiamichi River

On October 29, 1961, President John F. Kennedy visited Big Cedar, east of Talihina, Oklahoma to give a speech marking the opening of the Ouachita National Forest Road.

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One crashed into the south slope of White Rock Mountain above Moyers, Oklahoma, and another crashed on Big Mountain between Moyers and Kosoma.

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Radiocarbon dating of charred hickory and pecan hulls found at the site indicate a date of approximately 1,200 B.C. Also found were stumps of cypress trees... a tree which has not grown in that portion of the county in perhaps hundreds of years.



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