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About Stigler, OK

Stigler is home to the Haskell County Courthouse, which has become notable for erecting marble statues of the Ten Commandments and the Mayflower Compact on the front lawn. ( See Separation of church and state in the United States.) In the seventh commandment, the word " adultery" was misspelled as "adultry". The Commandments statue has since been removed following a court ruling. Stigler was founded in 1889 by Joseph Stigler, who originally named the town "Newman". (Earlier in his life, Stigler had been a deputy marshal serving under the notable federal judge Isaac Parker, whose court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, had jurisdiction over Indian Territory.