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Map of the Chickasaw National Recreation Area Location, Nearest city Coordinates: Area 9,899 acres (40.06 km 2) Established July 1, 1902 Visitors 1,212,139 (in 2011) Governing body Website Chickasaw National Recreation Area is a situated in the foothills of the in south-central near in. It includes the former Platt National Park and Arbuckle Recreation District. The area was established as Sulphur Springs Reservation on July 1, 1902; renamed and redesignated Platt National Park on June 29, 1906; combined with the Arbuckle Recreation Area and additional lands and renamed and redesignated on 17 March 1976. Of the park's 9,888.83 acres (4,002 ha), water covers 2,409 acres (975 ha). The park contains many fine examples of 1930's architecture. CCC workers created pavilions, park buildings, and enclosures for the park's many natural springs.

The Chickasaw National Recreation Area preserves partially forested hills of south-central near. Named to honor the, who were relocated to the area from the Southeastern United States during the 1830s (and who later sold the original 640 acres (260 ha) of land for the park to the Federal government), the park's springs, streams, and lakes provide swimming, boating, fishing, picnicking, camping, and hiking.

Download Gratis Program Stok Barang Aplikasi Penjualan Dan Gudang. As part of the Chickasaw tribe's arrangement with the U.S. Government, the park does not charge an admission fee. CCC stone work at Hillside Spring.

When the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were forced to move from their former lands in the southeastern United States, they found an area within the new Chickasaw nation that contained a number of natural fresh and mineral springs that they believed had healing powers. Fearing that developers would turn the springs into a private resort, as had happened earlier at, the Chickasaw sold a 640-acre parcel to the U. Government, which named it the Sulphur Springs Reservation in 1902.

Platt National Park [ ]. 'Bromide Pavilion' built by Civilian Conservation Corps in Platt National Park. Photo made July 12, 2007.

In 1902,, a senator from Connecticut, introduced legislation to establish the 640-acre Sulphur Springs Reservation, protecting 32 freshwater and mineral springs, in (then part of ). The reservation officially opened to the public April 29, 1904. On June 29, 1906, Congress re-designated the reservation as Platt National Park, named for the senator, a year after his death. It had the distinctions of being the seventh and smallest national park created in the United States, as well as the only national park in Oklahoma. Features the Lincoln Bridge in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Visitors soon thronged to the new national park. Both the (Frisco) and the had built spur lines to Sulphur, which became the main entrance to the park.