America, Oklahoma

America is a ghost town[1] in southeastern McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States.

[2] America grew around a sawmill built by William Spencer and his three brothers in 1907.

The Spencer family built 40 houses to lease to sawmill workers,[3] and by 1910 there were 200 people living in America.

[3] Cotton grown on the cleared land was shipped out by the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway (a predecessor of the Frisco)[4] that ran through the town.

Buck and Blanche Barrow, associates of Bonnie & Clyde were married in America on July 3, 1931.