ARDMORE  , a township and the

county-seat of Carter county, Oklahoma, U . S . A., just S. of the Arbuckle Mountains, about 120 M . S. by E. of Guthrie . Pop . (19o0) 5681; (1909) 8959 (2122 being negroes, and 1o8 Indians); (1910) 86x8 . It is served by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railways . Ardmore is the market-town and distributing point for the surrounding agricultural region, which is the home of a large part of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations . It is situated ARECIBO 451 890 ft. above the sea in a cotton and grain producing region, in which cattle are raised and fruit and vegetables grown; coal, oil, natural gas and rock asphalt (which is used for paving the streets of Ardmore) are found in the vicinity . Ardmore is an important cotton market, and has cotton gins, a cotton compress, machine shops, bridge works, foundries, bottling works and manufactories of cotton-seed oil, brick, concrete, flour, brooms, mattresses and dressed lumber . At Ardmore are the Saint Agnes Academy, a Catholic school for girls, and Saint Agnes College for boys, a conservatory of music, Hargrove College, and the Selvidge Commercial College . Near Ardmore is a summer school on the Chautauqua (q.v.) system .

Ardmore was founded in 1887, and was incorporated in 1898 .