[7] Once home to a bank, theater, and pub, the town has grown recently, both economically and in population.

Annually in September, the Good Ole Days Festival celebrates the town's past with a parade, cookout, and concert.

For a few weeks in July 1877 the official name of the post office was Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory.

[8] On August 5, 1932, while Bonnie Parker was visiting her mother, Clyde Barrow and two associates were drinking alcohol at a dance in Stringtown (illegal under Prohibition).

That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow Gang, a total which would eventually amount to nine slain officers.

The nearby Mack Alford State Penitentiary is a large source of employment in the county.

It was an internment camp for Japanese Americans arrested as "enemy aliens" and later for German POWs during World War II.

On January 14, 2014, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol disbanded the Stringtown Police Department for generating too much of the city’s revenue off of writing traffic tickets, a violation of the state "speed trap" law.

The Southwest Stone Company, also known as the Rock Crusher, is one of the biggest sources of employment in the county.

The railroad that runs through Stringtown stretches from south Texas, takes several routes in Oklahoma and Kansas, and reaches to the northern parts of Missouri.

Stringtown was once home to a sawmill and a cotton gin that had the biggest production rate in the late 1800s.

Today, there is a school, a church, a fire department, City Hall, Dianna’s Store, and a senior citizens center.