Hatsboro is a
ghost town in
Bryan County,
Oklahoma located near
Fort Washita.[1][2] The town was also known as Rugglesville.[3][4] The town was located across a creek west of the fort near the Chickasaw Indian Agency; the town's inhabitants were the families of soldiers and fort employees.[3][5] The town, which was located in
Chickasaw Nation, was sizable enough to be given a post office in the 1850s.[6] After the U.S. Army abandoned the fort, the town also was abandoned.[4] By 1929, the town site was being used as farmland, and by 1943, the
United States Department of the Interior reported that "a few ruins" were all that was left of the town.[1][5]
References
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abMorrison, W.B.
"A Visit to Old Fort Washita,"Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. 7 No.2 (June 1929): p. 177-78. Accessed April 19, 2015.