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Welcome to the Spavinaw Home page. The Spavinaw Home page provides as much information as possible on Spavinaw. Knowing Spavinaw’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Spavinaw’s Home page, you will also find Spavinaw’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Spavinaw has a population of 426. 53.1% of Spavinaw’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.9 are female. 41.8% of Spavinaw is married and 76.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $47,725, and the average rent is $588. Household median income in Spavinaw is $24,250, and the individual median income is $18,875. Spavinaw’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.1%), Native(24.2%), Multiple(11.5%), Hispanic(2.1%), Black(0.2%).


The town is named for Spavinaw Creek, a stream named by French traders and explorers who travelled here in the 18th century. According to historian Muriel Wright, the French name was a corrupted form of the French word ce'pee (meaning "young growth or shoots of wood"). plus the French adjective vineux (wine colored).


This term referred to a description of the color of black jack, post and red oak trees which grow here in springtime.The first recorded settler here was Lewis Rogers, son of Captain John Rogers. Lewis set up a mill, a distillery and a salt works in 1829. In 1839, the Eastern Cherokee began moving into the Spavinaw area of Indian Territory.


The Cherokee council outlawed the operation of distilleries in their area and dispossessed Rogers of his distillery and the salt works, both of which had already been damaged by a flooding of Spavinaw Creek.In 1846, Jacob Croft, a Mormon en route to Utah, decided to settle here instead. He was hired by Joseph Lynch Martin to restore the mill.


In 1855, a group of Mormon missionaries from Utah arrived at Croft's home and began converting Cherokees and Creeks. When they began urging the converts to move to Utah, Lewis Rogers complained to the Cherokee council. In October 1856, Chief John Ross ordered all Mormons out of the Cherokee nation.After the Civil War, Joseph "Greenbrier Joe" Lynch, brother-in-law of Joseph Lynch Martin, began operating the mill and the salt works.


Greenbrier Joe had saved enough money to buy 100,000 acres (40,000 ha). The community that grew up around these works became known as Lynch's Mill. In October 1878, the community was renamed Spavinaw Mills.


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