COUNTY ORGANIZED:1907
from a portion of Woods County. COUNTY NAMED FOR:
William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray
(1869-1956), president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and
ninth Governor of Oklahoma.
COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR:The
fact that the town site was in the Cherokee Outlet.
COURTHOUSES: Initially county offices and courts were in
rented rooms scattered among various buildings in town. In 1909,
the county offices consolidated into a former school building that had
been built in 1904. The current courthouse was completed in 1921.