This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SaB.2ACI/1612.1 Message Board Post: The book McCurtain County A Pictorial History volume 1 says: This community in the extreme northwestern section of the county was primarily a trading center for residents of the area who were engaged in lumbering and farming. A school was established shortly after statehood in 1907 and in 1912 a post office was chartered with John T. Pickens as the first postmaster. By the 1920's Pickens has two stores, a gristmill and a sawmill.