A small band of Muskogean Indians, who were taken in to the Creek Tribe, had this small town named in their honor at the turn of the 20th century, somewhere close to 122 years ago.
Located halfway between somewhere and someplace, Hitchita was named "as the people who spoke the Muskogean language".
This road has never been paved, it's caliber is rough, and covered with rocks, with larger horizontal rocks creating the base as it climbs up hill, and leaves the rider to fight for his heel print, as wind and rain can leave it muddy and slick with just a little time.
Just behind, the Graves Creek Cemetery holds the body of Will Samson, an actor, the big man who grew up Creek, and died and was buried here.
Three white Buffalo can be seen, just a half mile up the road, on grounds that holds the night as quiet as can be, and the daytime quieter yet.
Down this road, you eventually see the paved three blocks of town, the burnt out and broken down school, and the town of 144, resting gently there among the spirits of the past.
Ralph E Peck
Photo by Ralph Peck
of 4080 County Road,
North, just a little, of Hitchita, Oklahoma
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