As the following 1943 reference in the Chronicles of Oklahoma shows, Armstrong Academy was strategically located near the military road from Fort Towson to Fort Washita.
"Armstrong Academy was located two miles south of the road leading from Fort Towson to Fort Washita, fifty-five miles west of the former and thirty east of the latter. It is near the dividing ridge of the waters of Boggy and Blue river and twenty miles north west of the nearest point of Red River."
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1943), pp. 88-91. Early History of Armstrong Academy. James W. Moffitt.