Bugtussle, Oklahoma


Bugtussle is an unincorporated community on the southern shores of Lake Eufaula, in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States, about 30 miles west of Robbers Cave State Park, with a population of "a few hundred".

History

The community began in 1903 when Ran Woods and others constructed a two-room log schoolhouse on the site. The schoolhouse, no longer standing, was once attended by former Speaker of the US House Carl Albert. The settlement was allegedly named by Woods, who felt that the bugs at the site were so numerous that they were an endless "tussle". Bugtussle is about northeast of McAlester. It was renamed Flowery Mound about 1907, but the original name persisted. At the time of its founding, Bugtussle was in Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory.

Popular culture

Bugtussle was also the name of the town where the fictitious Beverly Hillbillies, of TV series fame, lived before moving to California.

Notable residents