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By May, Bonnie and Clyde would both be dead. Campbell and kidnapped police chief Percy Boyd. In April 1934, Bonnie and Clyde and their associate Henry Methvin killed Commerce Constable William C.

Ĭommerce was the site of two notable events in the mid-1930s. The town's population has remained roughly the same size ever since.Ĭommerce was on Route 66 when that highway was commissioned in 1926, and was the first town on the route through Oklahoma after crossing the Kansas border westbound. By the 1920 census, Commerce had a population of 2,555. In 1914, the mining company platted the town a mayor–council government formed two years later. In 1913, the residents called the local post office North Miami, though by June 1914 the post office took the present-day city's name that came from the Commerce Mining and Royalty Company, which had bought the mining camp.

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In a series of steps the line was later acquired by the St. Starting in 1908, the Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Inter-Urban Railway built a line between Miami and Commerce to serve the mining industry. In 1906, Hatton developed the Emma Gordon zinc and lead mine, whose resources had attracted workers.

Immigrants arrived and formed a mining camp named Hattonville after Amos Hatton. The Quapaw were removed to the area in the 1830s by the federal government after residing for hundreds of years on the west side of the Mississippi River in what later entered the union as the state of Arkansas. What became Commerce was land that was part of the Quapaw Indian Agency, allocated in the late 1830s.