Doaksville was established by the Doaks brothers in the early 1820s as a location for their trading post. The site became the first capital of the Choctaw Nation shortly after the tribe moved to this area in the winters of 1831-1833. Doaksville grew over the nest decade and became the center for commerce in the area. The town had many conveniences of any town back East it contained as many as five dry good stores, a hotel. Gristmill, wagon manufacturing company to name a few. The treaty of Doaksville was signed here in 1837. It provided a place in the Choctaw nation Chickasaws tribe to settle. The Choctaw Intelligencer newspaper was published here from the mid 1840s to 1854. Near here Confederate Brigadier General Stan Watie officially ended the Civil War on June 23, 1863.