EUFAULA

city, Barbour county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., on the Chattahoochee River (there dammed to form the Walter F. George Reservoir [or Lake Eufaula], 48,600 ac [19,700 ha]), at the Georgia state line. Founded (c. 1820) on an Eufaula Indian village site, it became a shipping point for cotton. The arrival (late 1850s) of the Central and Georgia Railroad led to industrial development. Agriculture, light manufacturing, paper milling, and bauxite mining form its economic base. A bridge over the reservoir connects with Georgetown, Ga. Lakepoint Resort State Park is at the reservoir's northern end. Inc. 1857. Pop. (1990) 13,220. city, seat (1907) of McIntosh county, east central Oklahoma, U.S., near the confluence of the Canadian and North Canadian rivers, southwest of Muskogee. It originated as an Indian settlement and trading post and was named for a Creek town on the Chattahoochee River in Alabama called Yufala, meaning they split here and went to other places. It developed as a ranching centre after the arrival of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in 1872. The Eufaula Boarding School for Indian Girls, successor to the Asbury Mission School (established in 1849 by the Methodist Episcopal Church under contract to the Creek Indian Council), remains active as a government institution. The state's oldest newspaper, the Indian Journal (founded as a tribal organ in Muskogee) is published in Eufaula. The completion of the Eufaula Dam (1964) on the Canadian River, impounding one of the world's largest man-made lakes, covering 102,500 ac (41,500 ha), and the creation of Fountainhead State Park (north) and Arrowhead State Park (south) have made the city the focus of a recreation area. Pop. (1990) 2,652.