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Okarche, OK
Okarche is a combination of three words – OKlahoma, ARapaho, and CHEyene. The post office was established in 1890 and the town was incorporated two years before statehood, in 1905. In the 1890s, German immigrants were the largest population segment so German was widely used in the community until the US entered World War I in 1917. Afterwards,…