It ceased its functions upon preparation for Oklahoma’s statehood in 1907, when the Choctaw Nation’s government and political subdivisions were dissolved.
A United States Post Office was established at Mayhew, Indian Territory on February 5, 1845 and operated until September 30, 1902.
The jailhouse was originally located at the first site of the district court, near the present-day Choctaw County community of Sunkist, and was moved to Mayhew in 1903.
The original "whipping tree", from which the court dispensed punishment to those convicted of crimes, had been chopped down.
[3] Riveting accounts of the life and work of the Mayhew Mission may be read in the surviving papers of Cyrus Kingsbury, a longtime missionary.