The New Student's Reference Work/South McAlester, Okla.

South McAl′ester, Okla., a city, capital of the Choctaws, annexed in 1906; it is on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways, about 50 miles south-southeast of Okmulgee, Creek Nation, and about 84 miles southeast of Fort Smith, Ark. It lies in a rich coal-mining district, and (besides several foundries, machine-shops and brick-plants) it has cotton-compress establishments, flour-mills, bottling-works, a tannery and macaroni, cigar and mattress factories. Though settled so recently as 1885, the town was incorporated in 1899 and has since grown considerably. It was recently annexed to McAlester. Combined population, 12,954.