The Edwards Store This log home was built in the 1840s and is Oklahoma’s 8th oldest remaining structure. “The log-cabin structure was built by Thomas Edwards, an Englishman whose world travels brought him to Indian Territory in the 1840s. He married a Choctaw native, Nancy Hardaway, and the couple established a store at their new homeplace on the Fort Smith to Boggy Depot road, one of the very paths the Hardaway family had been forced to take years before when Choctaw natives were forced from th