Ada, Indian Territory, was founded on lands acquired from Chickasaw and Choctaw citizens after the U.S. Government forcibly removed the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations to this area from their southeastern homelands. The town began in 1890 when William Jefferson (Jeff) Reed built a log store and dwelling near present Fourth St. and Oak Ave. A Post Office was established July 10, 1891, and the town was named Ada for Reed's oldest daughter. In 1900 the stores and Post Office moved near the newly arrived St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railroad, whose original passenger depot sat between Broadway and Townsend Streets, and in 1913 a new depot was built on this site. Incorporated in 1901, Ada became the county seat of Pontotoc County at Statehood in 1907. Railway transportation, the creation in 1909 of present East Central University, and the procurement of a prolific water supply from Byrd's Mill in 1910 set the stage for steady economic and cultural growth, and from a raw frontier town Ada evolved into "The Queen City of the Chickasaw Nation."